> > [the tracheal opening on a honey bee]
> > is still somewhat elastic and mites can therefor
> > push things around to get in.

http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/acari/content/trachealmites.html

Nice link Jim!

Would be interesting reading if one of the members
that may have access could locate these two
manuscripts.

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"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EXTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE
PROTHORACIC AND THE PROPODEAL SPIRACLES IN FOUR
STRAINS OF Apis mellifera (L.). POSSIBLE RESISTANCE
MECHANISM AGAINST THE TRACHEAL MITE Acarapis woodi
(R.)"

Theophilidis G., Hatjina F., Gregorc A. , Pappas N.
Zacharioudakis St. , Thrasyvoulou A. Proceedings of
The 1st Hellenic Scientific Conference in
Apiculture-Sericulture 150-158 (2002).

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"DIFFERENCES IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF PROTHORACIC AND
PROPODEAL SPIRACLES IN THREE STRAINS OF APIS MELLIFERA
: POSSIBLE RELATION TO RESISTANT AGAINST ACARAPIS
WOODI."

Fani Hatjina Ales Gregorc, Chrisovalantis
Papaefthimiou, Nickolaos Pappas, Stylianos
Zacharioudakis, Andreas Thrasyvoulou, George
Theophilidis,
J. APIC. RES (2004) 43(3):





Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA
Small Cell Beekeeping
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries'
http://www.biologicalbeekeeping.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/



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