Thanks to all, but it is interesting that Varroa is a vector while, when I
said the same about Tracheal a million years ago, I was corrected, that it
was not. Now it is.

My guess is if you take the narrowest definition you could say it is not. A
broad definition makes any disease carrier a vector. Most definitions of
disease vectors address malaria and Lyme disease as examples, since the
carrier (mosquito or tick) is immune and the disease is specific.

Still, does the mite die from or are they effected by the virus or are they
immune? That would be more in keeping with a disease vector.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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