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Anthony Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:34:58 +0100
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Gordon wrote:

> What I did find in most of the dead hives on at least two frames each =
> puzzled me as a fairly new beekeeper. I found clusters of what appeared =
> to be white eggs about the size of the end of a number 2 lead pencil =
> scatted over the frames and in the cells. Have you ever had an =
> experience with this phenomenon? If so what is it's cause? Please =
> contact me on this as I have told my employer that I would find what I =
> could from an expert in apiculture.

Varroa excreta?
See:
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rf/detect/detect.html

Has anybody seen these white deposits? Could they be mistaken for eggs?

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Anthony N Morgan,
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Institutt for Elektroteknikk
Høgskolen i Sør-Trøndelag
N-7005 Trondheim, Norway
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