Yep, Allen.

I collected about fifty or more crawling bees from the front of the *each*
five infected hives, froze them overnight, and counted the mites, under a
microscope at school, and I found about three to ten mites in each sample;
in fact, our biology lab wanted to save them for the benefit of our
students.  Since these colonies lack any bottom, many are open and
bottomless, it was impossible to stick anything under: they sit on
rectangular stand right above the dirt, where tiny ants work like
undertakers.  I do not know the exact strand of the mites I got: under a
microscope, they all looked brown to me, rather than red or reddish
brown.  They probably are the Russian or East Asian strand, the most
common type found in America.

Yoon

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