The biology of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida, Coleoptera: Nitidulidae): Gaps in our knowledge of an invasive species

By P. Neumann, P. Elzen. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology

1. Zhi-Yong Huang
2. J. Pettis
3. P. Neumann

In Insect Science

1. P. Neumann
2. J. Pettis
3. J. Ellis
4. D. vanEngelsdorp
5. Jay D. Evans
6. M. Schäfer
7. C. Pirk
8. R. Crewe

In Plant Science

1. J. Pettis
2. M. Schäfer
3. Zhi-Yong Huang
4. P. Neumann
5. J. Ellis
6. D. vanEngelsdorp

Citations in the corpus

• Quo vadis Aethina tumida? Biology and control of small hive beetles (2016, background): “…that a similar pheromone plays a role for long-range host finding and aggregations of SHBs. Observations that males tend to infest before females (Neumann and Elzen 2004) indicate that the aggregation pheromone might be male produced as in Carpophilus obsoletus and is attractive to both sexes…”
• A survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the Republic of South Africa–2009 to 2011 (2014, background): “The small hive beetle is omnipresent in sub-Saharan Africa (Schmolke, 1974; Neumann and Elzen, 2004), however, it seems that these beetles take over when brood and resources are left behind, for example, after an absconding event (Neumann et al., 2001b).”
• Pollen nutrition affects honey bee stress resistance (2012, background): “Th ese include the tracheal mites, Acarapis woodi (Rennie) in 1984 ( Wilson et al., 1997 ), Varroa mites, Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman), in 1987 (De Jong et al., 1997), and the small hive beetle (Nitidulidae), Aethina tumida (Murray), in 1996 ( Neumann and Elzen, 2004 ).”
• Standard methods for small hive beetle research (2013, background): “Small hive beetles (SHB) are parasites and scavengers of honey bee and other social bee colonies native to sub-Saharan Africa, where they are considered to usually be a minor pest only (Lundie, 1940; Schmolke, 1974; Hepburn and Radloff, 1998; Neumann and Elzen, 2004; Neumann and Ellis, 2008).”
• The small hive beetle (Aethina tumida Murray, Coleoptera: Nitidulidae): distribution, biology and control of an invasive species (2008, background): “Since then, small hive beetle introductions have been reported from a number of other countries (Neumann and Elzen, 2004; Ellis and Munn, 2005; Fig.”