Hi Dee

Thanks for your input.  The Euvarroa certainly seem good potential 
candidates (I have seen Apis florea in the area, so they could have 
transferred), but I have been unable to find any pictures of them on bees so 
have no idea whether they would cluster on both the thorax and abdomen as 
these are doing.   I have looked at the pictures that I took of florea but, 
of course, there is not a mite to be seen!


Best wishes

Peter Edwards
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