Prevalence and geographical distribution of Senotainia tricuspis (Meigen)

• Author(s): Pires, Sância ; Cadavez, Vasco ; Valério, Maria José
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/6706
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Apimyasis; Parasitism; Senotainia sp.; Apis mellifera L.; Portugal
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The aim of this work was to survey the prevalence of Senotainia sp. (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) in several Portuguese regions. A total of 61182 bees were sampled from 1912 Portuguese apiaries, distributed in several regions of Portugal and were analyzed for Senotainia sp prevalence. The bees samples were collected during 2009 and the thoraxes of 40 bees taken from each sample were examined individually in Reference National Laboratory {LNIV) and Bee Pathology Laboratory of Agrarian School of Braganza {LPESAB) to look for diptera larvae (myiasis) parasitization.