Dave Cushman wrote:
> I am not knocking what you say, but for the selection process to work, 
> we need variability in offspring and Varroa are essentially clonal in 
> their reproduction, so the only variations that exist are a few chance 
> ones due to atomic particle collisions in egg DNA.

I don't think this is necessarily true, because if you get *two* Varroa 
mites entering a single cell, then the male offspring of each one can 
mate with the female offspring of the other, so there is some 
opportunity for genetic mixing to go on. It's just that this opportunity 
for genetic mixing mostly happens when the mite population is pretty high.

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Tim Eisele
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