> The photo is too small for me to ID. Here's a much higher-rez version of that photo: http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/22363/New%20Scientist%20Top%20 Ten%20%20Hanging%20out%20lunch_big.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/nx2uezt I'd love to hear from an expert, but the files above do not look to me like the images below provided with the paper "A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis" http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029639 png format image: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0029639.g002/la rgerimage http://tinyurl.com/kt99bsa Much, much higher-rez tiff format: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0029639.g002/or iginalimage http://tinyurl.com/m9ds5ng Tiffs are easy to view with the free http://Alternatiff.com tiff image viewer plug-in for your web browser. We need lots of photos of any beastie that bothers our bees. One of the biggest setbacks with varroa was that years were wasted looking at the wrong varroa (raise a glass to Dennis Anderson who set everyone straight). To this day, some reference materials that should be authoritative still confuse Varroa destructor with Varroa jacobsoni. Try googling "Varroa jacobsoni", and you'll still see nice photos of destructor. The best comparison photo I've ever seen is http://www.coloss.org/beebook/II/varroa/2/3/2 *********************************************** 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
