> I’m searching for procedures for harvesting mites and how to infest a
> specific bee... and want to video tape a grooming event in one of my
> colonies that are exhibiting the trait.
You might like to contact some of the USDA lab people. They have been doing
these things routinely and are happy to show off what they know, especially
at field days, and pretty helpful by email.
See http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/2003/diary011003.htm for pictures of
John Harbo giving beekeepers a demo of his varroa observation setup a few
years back. Pretty well anybody at Baton Rouge lab should be able to give
pointers, and I am sure that most of the other labs have dabbled at least in
this sort of thing.
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