In a sample of 30 worker honeybees collected
in southwestern Georgia, three
specimens were infected with a previously
unreported microsporidian. Insufficient
material was available for successful
transmission and pathogenicity studies but
dried and wet fixed smears, electron micrographs
of thin sections of infected midgut
tissue, and measurements of fresh spores
showed this parasite to be distinct from N. apis.

A continuing search for additional specimens
of this microsporidian which began in
the spring of 1977 has not been successful.
It is hoped that this report may interest
others in the search.

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CLARK, TRUMAN B. (1979) "A Second Microsporidian in the Honeybee"
Bioenvironmental Bee Laboratory, Agricultural Research, Science and
Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltwille,
Maryland 20705

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