On 30-Oct-15, at 8:52 AM, Jose Villa wrote: > Zach Huang has a fairly thorough description/summary of varroa mite > biology available at: > > https://www.extension.org/pages/65450/varroa-mite-reproductive- > biology#.VjNmFByBLzt Hi Jose and all I read Dr Huang's paper and found the following statement: When more than one mite invade a single brood cell, the per capita fecundity decreases, as the number of mother mites per cell increases. Which may put a damper on my previous statement: If several(more than one) foundress mites enter a cell the offspring have a good chance of being genetically different than their parents. Bob Darrell Caledon Ontario Canada 44N80W *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html