> It appears that the entire varroa problem in European honey bees was due to
> a mutation in a single mite that allowed her to ovulate in response to
> worker larval pheromones.

Sorry ...  I just got lost.  So that being the case, is it known why the 
mites do not prefer to populate worker cells that have the pheromone 
compared with the drone cell which I guess have a different pheromone?  
Or did I miss the plot?


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