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Re: Varroa control
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:06:54 -0700
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Dr. Peter Teal, USDA ARS has investigated mite attraction.  Questing mites
are strongly attracted to the pheromones secreted by drone larvae shortly
prior to being capped.  When another species reacts to a pheromone, it is
called a kairomonal response.

On the mite's native host, A cerana, pheromones secreted by worker larvae
do not normally initiate ovulation in the mite--it takes the drone
pheromone (kairomone) to do so.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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