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Varroa destructor and Apis cerana
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Peter Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:30:45 -0000
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We now know that the Varroa causing problems for Apis mellifera is Varroa
destructor and not the original Varroa jacobsonii found on Apis cerana.

Does anyone know if V.d. can, or has, transferred to cerana?  If so, can
cerana cope with it in the same way that it copes with V.j.?

Peter Edwards
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www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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