| Species: | Tropilaelaps clareae | |
| Genera: | Tropilaelaps | |
| Family: | Laelapidae | |
| Distribution: | Tropical and subtropical region including Afghanistan, China, Hong Kong, Java, Malaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka. T. koenigerum is reported from Sri Lanka, Nepal and India. | |
| Host Crops: | A. dorsata, A. mellifera, A. laboriosa , A. cerana, A. florae | |
| Nature of Damage: | Reduction in life span of adult bees, lower body weight, shrunken and deformed wings and legs of adult bees, irregular and poor brood patterns with patches of neglected brood and perforated capping, in severe infestation up to 50% developing brood may die, colonies may abscond. | |
| Life Cycle: | Mother mite lays three to four eggs on mature bee larvae 48 hours after cell capping, about one day apart. The eggs hatch after around twelve hours, then the larva goes through nymphal stages (protonymph, deutonymph) before reaching the adult stage. Development from egg laying to the adult stage takes approximately 6 days. Up to 14 adult mites and 10 nymphal stages of mite have been recorded in a single cell. | |