Pranab Debnath

First Record of Megaselia scalaris (Loew) as a Potential Facultative Parasitoid of Apis mellifera in India

Pranab Debnath & Debashis Roy · Asian Journal of Biology · 2019

Aims: In 2016, suddenly a pile of dead honey bees, Apis mellifera with unfolded wings had been noticed adjacent to the Langstroth bee boxes on the daily interval for a consecutive period of 2-3 months. The present study was an attempt to investigate the reason for this abnormal d...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AJOB/2018/46210

Colony Collapse Disorder of Honey Bee: A Neoteric Ruction in Global Apiculture

Debashis Roy, Pranab Debnath, Dibyendu Mondal & Pijush Kanti Sarkar · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2018

For last few years, honey bee disappearance by the destruction of the entire colony attracted the attention of many researchers where they used the term colony collapse disorder (CCD), but, they failed to explain the exact reason of this phenomenon. Many schools of thoughts are t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/CJAST/2018/38218