| [symptomatic black queen cell virus infection of drone brood in hessian apiaries]. | the black queen cell virus (bqcv) can affect brood of the honey bee (apis mellifera). in general queen cells are endangered showing dark coloured cell walls as typical symptoms. worker- and dronebrood can be infected by bqcv but normally without clinical symptoms. this paper describes for the first time a symptomatic bqcv-infection of diseased drone brood found on two bee yards in hessen/germany in 2001. the drone larvae were seriously damaged and some of them were dead. samples of the affected ... | 2003 | 12680279 |