I'm located about 90 miles north of Mobile, Alabama. This afternoon I went out to check on one of my hives. I moved some hive boxes around for queen rearing purposes. When I moved the Illinois super I had on the bottom I had to remove some burr comb the bees had been using as ladders to the bottom frames. In that burr comb there were a number of capped drone brood. After rearranging the boxes I returned to the burr comb and pulled 20 capped and almost capped drone pupae (light purple eye stage) out and examined them. Of the 20 pupae, only one (1) had a varroa mite on it and it was not a full adult - i.e. a light orange color. Would that bee enough information to make a guess as to the mite population of that particular colony? If so, what would your summation be?
Mike in LA
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