response, i.e. the female is strongly attracted to light and is inactive in darkness.
warmest part of the day. Ensure that the hive gets some sunlight during the dark winter period. Shade can be provided by the crop, a crate, or other screening
elongated insects, about 1.4-2.4 millimeters in length. They have a black or dark brown body with white markings on their wings. The wings lie flat over their
of the leaves. These lesions start out in a light-brown colour, turning to dark-brown or necrosis. Fruits of infected trees are much smaller and their sugar
antennae, a rounded abdomen that is shorter than the wings, and is black with dark brown legs. A female has a more pointed abdomen that is as long as the wings
attack of broad mite ( Polyphagotarsonemus latus ), is the appearance of dark brown edges at the base of young leaves. In case of a mild infestation, one