It sits just fine for those who read the paper.

Jim in "Huckleberry Finn" wisely said "Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits."

I don't think that Ramsey, et al over stated their case in the least, and the critique by McArt of Cornell misses the mark.

First, the paper is here:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818371116

Second, the title of the paper itself seems to be sufficient in itself to defuse critique of this sort:  "Varroa destructor feeds **PRIMARILY** on honey bee fat body tissue and not hemolymph"

So, one is left with a qualitative evaluation of what is "primarily" consumed at what stage of bee development, yadda yadda...  yeah.  

Remember, it took a decade for someone to notice that the "Varroa Jacobsoni" infesting our bees were not round, like the photos of Jacobsoni, but instead, oblong, something that could be plainly seen by the naked eye. Hence "Varroa destructor" was born  Bob Harrison noted this detail several times to many people, I think even here on Bee-L, and was ignored.

The resulting work by Anderson and Trueman "Varroa jacobsoni (Acari: Varroidae) is more than one species" was yet another paper that said it all in the title.
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006456720416

(Needless to say, Anderson was wise to not accept a name for Varroa destructor that included his surname or the name of anyone he liked.)

As an aside, both the Blue Jays and the White Sox have players named "Berroa", which can sound just like "Varroa" if one is listening to the spring training games on the radio.

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