Nosema ceranae: Kiss of Death or Much Ado About Nothing?

摘要

Dr. Mariano Higes' team (from the Centra Apicola Regional in Spain) electrified the beekeeping world two years ago with the report that the "new" bee parasite, Nosema ceranae, appeared to be causing massive colony depopulations (Martin-Hernandez 2007). Suddenly we had a potential culprit for the cause of CCD! I followed up on this announcement with a series of articles on "The Nosema Twins"— all now posted to ScientificBeekeeping .com. There has been a recent flurry of papers published on N. ceranae (several by the Centra Apicola team—who have produced the largest body of research on the parasite), so I felt it appropriate to update my readers.