“Isle of Wight” or Acariñe Disease: its Historical and Practical Aspects

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In 1964 we published an article by Dr. L. Bailey on the occurrence of acarine disease and “Isle of Wight” disease during the present century. He concluded that “we have no evidence that any parasite we know today was the cause of the wholesale losses of bees. Having examined the evidence, I suspect that the I.O. W. disease was assumed to be the cause of all the losses for which there was no obvious explanation at the time. In this sense it was truly a myth.… We now present an account of the disease by a distinguished beekeeper who himself witnessed the epidemic from 1915 onwards, and who has reared and bred bees for over 50 years. His conclusions are very different from Dr. Bailey's, as the article shows. Ideally, science and practice go hand in hand; where they do not, each side should be given a hearing.

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