" I think there is lots of room here to explore mite behavior, given that so much of it seems to be unknown."

If female mites are found in drone brood according to a Poisson distribution that says they do not seek out cells already containing a female does it not?  A Poisson distribution is one particular type of random distribution that can be obtained with totally inanimate objects such as coins or marbles by dropping them from a fair height on a large, hard, level surface marked into a grid.  It is not the same as a normal distribution.

Dick
" Any discovery made by the human mind can be explained in its essentials to the curious learner."  Professor Benjamin Schumacher talking about teaching quantum mechanics to non scientists.   "For every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong."  H. L. Mencken

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