In a message dated 96-02-23 15:14:33 EST, you write:
 
>What are the PMS symptoms?
 
Parasitic Mite Syndrome
 
   A lot of dead brood, which superficially resembles American Foulbrood.
 The dead brood cannot be "roped" as foulbrood, however, and it has only the
smell of dead brood, not the "knock-em-down" odor of foulbrood.
 
  Uncapping brood cells will usually uncover many varroa mites that dies with
the host.
 
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