Dear Stan & All
 
The article in:
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/beenet/varroa.htm
also says:
"Sixty hours after the cell is sealed the mite lays her first egg, with
succeeding eggs at approximately 30 hour intervals. The first egg results in
a female, the second a male, and the third and beyond, females. New young
mites reach maturity within the cell and mating takes place. The male mite
then dies, along with any immature females, and the newly mated females
leaves the cell with the emerging bee, moving to a new host bee to continue
the cycle."
 
I can't imagine a "traped" and especially "released" male.
If I understand good, males don't leave their cells.
Mating takes place in capped cell.
 Maybe, we should affect female to lay eggs of impotent males :)
 
Good night girls and boys. It's time to go closer my bed. Local time: 20:30,
0 degrees Celsium, the remains of 2 days snow continue melting.
 
Sincerely Yours
 
Rimantas Zujus
Kaunas
LITHUANIA
 
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>I wonder if the technique of "trap and release" where the males are
trapped,
>sterilized and released to breed would be of any use in controlling varroa.
>This is one technique in which resistance is not selected for.  It requires
>that males be attracted to a females pheromones.  Can someone post any
>information or sources on sex among varroa.  I bet if you put sex and
>vampires into a search engine you would get plenty of hits, and not one of
>them would be about vampire mites :)
>
>Regards, Stan
>47N  63W
>