One method of combating this avenue of infection is the use of hygenic bees which pull the larvae that have breeding mites within the cell, thus ejecting the infected larvae and accompanying mites.

Mike in LA

--- On Mon, 7/7/08, main account <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
'Instead, the infection has been found only inside 
> the gut of the varroa, suggesting that the mite 
> has merely eaten it from the bodies of infected larvae ... suggests the virus comes out of the mite the other way - in the feces. Might the mites
then defecate into the brood food, so that the larvae eats virus and becomes
infected?  Perhaps that transmission mechanism explains why bees emerging from
cells entered by more than one varroa show shriveled wings - their food was
doubly contaminated. 



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