. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 999 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 6, 1907. on, so that there is no cause for fearing that the craft will be exterminated even if the disease in the Isle of Wight should spread to the' mainland. We have at different times had a few cases in our own apiary, but as they were of a mild char- acter drastic measures were not necessary in order to get rid of the malady, as it generally disappeared of itself. In the year 1865 Dr. E. Assmuss de- scribed the disease, in "Die Parasiten der Honigbiene," as one caused by a well- knoAvn micro
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 999 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 6, 1907. on, so that there is no cause for fearing that the craft will be exterminated even if the disease in the Isle of Wight should spread to the' mainland. We have at different times had a few cases in our own apiary, but as they were of a mild char- acter drastic measures were not necessary in order to get rid of the malady, as it generally disappeared of itself. In the year 1865 Dr. E. Assmuss de- scribed the disease, in "Die Parasiten der Honigbiene," as one caused by a well- knoAvn micro-organism termed Miicor rnel-. Fig. l. litophorus. This was further studied by Drs. Benneman and Hiibner, who pub- lished the results of their researches in the Bienenzeitung of 1881 (page 7). They found spores of what they termed Mucor rrmcedo (Fig. 1) among the fat corpuscles of the abdomen, and also discovered. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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