Publications from IBRA

A new list is enclosed: "Publications and visual aids on apiculture for the tropics and subtropics obtainable from IBRA" (0/21). ‘This list indicates which of the publications can be obtained free of charge, and it quotes the prices of the others.

New publications since Newsletter No. 2 include:

Two reviews, Development of chalk brood in a honeybee colony, and Chalk brood pathogens, are published together as Reprint M110 from 1982 Bee World. In them Dr. L.A.F. Heath gives detailed information on the life cycle of the causative fungus Ascosphaera apis, and up-to-date information about the control of chalk brood.

Price £1.15 or USS2.50, post paid.

Viruses of honeybees (Reprint M111) by Dr. L. Bailey (1982) describes 11 honeybee viruses identified at Rothamsted since 1975: cloudy wing virus, bee virus Y (and the relationship with bee virus X), black queen cell virus, acute bee-paralysis virus, filamentous virus, chronic bee-paralysis virus, Egypt bee virus, Arkansas bee virus, Thai sacbrood virus, Kashmir bee virus and Apis iridescent virus. A table gives the dimensions and morphology of the known 18 honeybee viruses. Price 95p or US$2.30 post paid.