The Efficacy of Oduor-Baited Bottom Board Trap for Controlling Small Hive Beetle, Aethina Tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Honeybee Colonies

Abstract:

Honeybees are of great value in Africa for both their economic and ecological importance. Economically, they are important pollinators of a great host of commercial crops as well as a source of food and livelihoods for thousands of small-scale beekeepers. Ecologically, they contribute to floral biodiversity and conservation throough their pollination activity of both cultivated and wild plants. In Kenya, bee keeping as an income generating activity is being utilized as a tool to fight poverty in the rural arid and semi-arid areas.