nameless bee disease

English

Noun

nameless bee disease (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of disappearing disease
   • 1890 January 30, British Bee Journal‎^[1], volume 18, page 54:

     During the present year a number of beekeepers, representing widely separated localities, have reported in the bee journals the appearance among their bees of a trouble, by some called 'nameless bee disease,' and by others 'trembling disease.'

   • 1894 November 15, Gleanings in Bee Culture‎^[2], volume 22, page 872:

     So I submit, that, because Miss Gayton called Cheshire's attention to the bacillus that caused our "nameless bee-disease," it might with more propriety bo termed Gayton's disease.

   • 1911 September, G. M. Doolittle, “Bee-Paralysis—A Queer Disease”, in American Bee Journal‎^[3], volume 51, page 272:

     From the description given, I think th ere is little doubt but what these bees have what was termed 30 to 35 years ago "The Nameless Bee-Disease," but what has been known since then as "Bee-Paralysis."