I am wondering if this plague in adult male bees in the article clip below, is in reference to Isle of Wight disease. Why the reference to 'adult male honeybees'? I am suspecting this is a typo, and should perhaps, have read 'adult bees'? The 'strange plague' comment has me wondering. By 1920, it was known that a mite was the cause, by 1921 it was widely published in journals to be caused by a mite, yet, reference to a 'strange plague' is what I do not understand. Can anybody shed some light on this? =====Article Clip===== “Because adult male honeybees are now subject to a strange plague in many foreign lands, importing of bees through United States mails was forbidden by recent order….” Popular Mechanics Oct 1923 Page 525 http://books.google.com/books?id=XdoDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA525&dq=%22male%20honeybees%22%20plague&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q&f=false Best Wishes, Joe Waggle http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm