{"id":332328,"date":"2025-04-09T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=332328"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:19:50","slug":"small-hive-beetle-shb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/small-hive-beetle-shb\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Hive Beetle (SHB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A young scientist from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recently identified the presence of the <strong>invasive Small Hive Beetle (SHB), Aethina tumida<\/strong>, in an apiary located in Amdanga, North 24 Parganas district of <strong>West Bengal<\/strong>. <strong>Small Hive Beetle (SHB)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-332588 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?resize=562%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Small Hive Beetle (SHB)\" width=\"562\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Small Hive Beetle (SHB)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SHBs are <strong>small, oval-shaped beetles<\/strong> measuring <strong>5\u20137 mm<\/strong> in length, typically <strong>reddish-brown<\/strong> in color.<\/li>\n<li>It is native to the <strong>sub-Saharan Africa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Female<\/strong> beetles <strong>infiltrate hives<\/strong> through cracks, laying eggs that hatch into larvae which <strong>feed on stored pollen, honey, and bee brood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat posed:<\/strong> A potentially devastating threat is posed to India&#8217;s <strong>honey bee population and apiculture industry<\/strong> of India.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first time this beetle\u2019s presence<\/strong> has been recorded in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)<\/strong> has <strong>classified<\/strong> SHB infestation as <strong>a notifiable disease<\/strong> due to its destructive potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A young scientist from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recently identified the presence of the invasive Small Hive Beetle (SHB), Aethina tumida, in an apiary located in Amdanga, North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Small Hive Beetle (SHB) About Small Hive Beetle (SHB) SHBs are small, oval-shaped beetles measuring 5\u20137 mm in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/small-hive-beetle-shb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Hive Beetle (SHB)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":332588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12056,11834],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-332328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls-daily-factly-articles","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Small-Hive-Beetle-SHB.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}