单词 | foulbrood |
释义 | foulbroodn. Either of two bacterial diseases causing the death of honeybee larvae in the comb.The two diseases are distinguished as American foulbrood and European foulbrood, after the continents in which their causative bacteria were first identified rather than because of their geographical distribution. American foulbrood, caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, is the most destructive disease of domesticated honeybees. European foulbrood, caused by Melissococcus plutonius, is a less serious disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > [noun] > disorders of bees hive-evil1608 dysentery1816 foulbrood1853 Nosema1900 microsporidiosis1911 sacbrood1913 Varroa1974 1853 L. L. Langstroth Hive & Honey-bee xi. 271 There is one disease, called by the Germans, ‘foul brood’, of which I know nothing, by my own observation. 1895 Gardeners' Chron. 12 Jan. 43/2 The increasing prevalence of the bee scourge, commonly known as foul brood or bee-pest, and to the scientist as Bacillus alvei. 1906 E. F. Phillips in G. F. White Bacteria of Apiary U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Entomol. Technical Series No. 14 Pref. 3 Since this is the disease in which Bacillus alvei is present, we can not drop the name ‘foul brood’, and the word ‘European’ is used to distinguish it from the other disease... This disease is here designated ‘American foul brood’. 1978 H. Shimanuki in R. A. Morse et al. Honey Bee Pests, Predators, & Dis. iii. 45 In addition, beekeepers can spread American foulbrood by inadvertently feeding honey from diseased colonies or interchanging brood combs between diseased and healthy colonies. 2013 R. Conrad Nat. Beekeeping (ed. 2) ix. 193/1 Foulbrood is still the most important microbial disease that beekeepers must concern themselves with. Derivatives ˈfoul-broody adj. now rare affected by foulbrood; of or relating to foulbrood. [After German faulbrütig (1781 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > [adjective] > disorders of bees foul-broody1866 Isle of Wight1909 1866 tr. Schiebele in Amer. Bee Jrnl. Oct. 77/1 A foulbroody colony [G. faulbrütiges Volk], if transferred to a clean hive and constrained to build new combs, is by no means cured, though it may have been first made to suffer hunger and then fed with pure honey. 1885 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 5 584 When larvæ of Apis mellifera were artificially infected with ‘foul-broody matter’ the bacillus nature of the disease was incontestable. 1944 Bee World Jan. 2/2 A difference of opinion exists on the utilisation of foul-broody wax. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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