Noticed a variation in the eyes of my worker bees.  A small percentage 
of my worker bees in some colonies are very light colored, almost what 
you would call Cordovan, but the queen is Italian (predominately).  The 
anomaly that I'm finding is that just about all the Cordovan configured 
worker bees have very small eyes, constituting about 40% to 50% the size
 of the seemingly normal worker bees.  The face of the abnormal bees is 
heavily covered with cilia.  The eyes are oval shaped with the long axis
 of the eyes going from side to side.  The eye proportions are about 
twice as long as they are wide.  Has anyone noticed this configuration 
of the eyes in their bees?  Is it indicative of a virus or other 
problem?

Mike in LA 

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