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Re: mite bomb...
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Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:43:53 -0500
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> In fact, I'll go further - I suspect they may even join in and assist with the robbing.

Plausible, of course. But you will have to come up with a theory on how the bees being robbed can find their way to the hive doing the robbing... so far as I know, bees cannot follow individual bees. Seeley demonstrates how multiple guide bees can direct a swarm, but nobody has ever observed a single bee following another. May not be possible.

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