Bee Quarantine Is Set To Contain Killer Mite  Published: April
07, 1988  The Federal Government has quarantined bees in 13
states to help prevent the spread of a tiny killer mite that
threatens the nation's bee industry, the Agriculture Department
said today.  The restrictions, effective immediately, ban the
shipment of bees and apiary equipment from those states, said
Larry B. Slagle, acting associate administrator of the
department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The
states are: Florida, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi,
Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.  Of the major honey-producing
states, only California and North Dakota remain unaffected by
the mites, whose scientific name is Varroa jacobsoni. The female
is about one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, and the male is
somewhat smaller.  The mites were first discovered in the United
States last September in a Wisconsin apiary and since have
spread to the 12 other states.  If