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Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:26:00 -0500
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Re: Re-infestation by varroa
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> > Old, but by no means irrelevant ... Interesting that drone excluders
> didn't reduce this.
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I thought so too, but thinking about it further it would make sense that
mites might prefer workers over drones, more apt to be able to re-infest a
cell from a worker... Not sure it's true though, could only find a
preference for younger workers over older not workers over drones in the
phonetic stage... Anyone seen research along those lines?  Or percent
infestation comparison between drones and worker adults?

Jeremy
West Michigan

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