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> but, she said that the female mite enters the worker cell just before it is capped, then lays an unfertilised egg that becomes a male who mates with his mother.
She may have misspoken or folks heard mother when she said, brother. Did anyone challenge her?
As a side note of interest, there is lab work using artificially reared virgin mites that supports that an unfertilized foundress that has entered a cell will or can mate with her son.
> During a reproductive cycle, not all daughter mites of Varroa destructor mate and thus leave the brood cells as virgins. Here, we show that virgin mites are present within both the phoretic (10%) and reproductive (8%) mite population. Most (n = 29 of n = 33) of these encountered virgins laid unfertilized (= male) eggs, and some (n = 10) mated later on with their own son. These findings were verified by tests with artificially reared virgin mites. Obviously, mating is not a prerequisite for Varroa reproduction. However, due to the small number of reproductive cycles, the contribution of virgins to the Varroa population is regarded as low.
>Reproductive parameters of female Varroa destructor and the impact of mating in worker brood of Apis mellifera
Claudia Katharina HÄUßERMANN1 et al.
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