Dee,
I see sometime ago on beesource.com that you or somebody else was to check
the reproductive rate of varroa in combs of different sizes, is that
experiement now completed?

I compared the varroa reproduction rate between two hosts: workers reared in
worker cells and workers reared in drone cells and strangely, mite
reproduced much less on workers reared in drone cells!  this is only true in
Apis mellifera, in Apis cerana the difference is not significant.

Zachary Huang
http://www.cyberbee.net