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(1) The Etiology of the Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

John Rennie ,
Philip Bruce White  and
Elsie J. Harvey
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Isle of Wight Bee Disease has been known in this country certainly since 1904, when it was first recognised in the island from which it derives its popular name. According to Imms it was probably present in Derbyshire in 1902, and was also known in Cornwall and other districts in 1904. Prior to these dates periodic losses of bees of a serious character are on record, dating as far back as the middle of the eighteenth century. Bullamore and Malden (1912) have summarised fully these outbreaks in historical series in their report in Journal of Board of Agriculture, Supplement 8, xix. From a study of the records which they have brought together and from personal inquiries which we have made at various bee-keepers of wide experience, it would appear that none of these earlier outbreaks attained the general distribution throughout the country which we know in Isle of Wight Disease at the present date, nor did any of them remain established over such an extensive period of years as that which has continued without interruption from 1902 until the present time.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , 1921 , pp. 737 - 754
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1921

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