I coauthored a review and a caution on the issue of Varroa travelling on alternative hosts, including wasps and flowers, also betles. The review, co-authored with Laverty and Denmark was published in BEE WORLD. The remarks about Varroa possibly travelling with bumblebees is most alarming, and was noted as a possibility in our review. I can't remember the volume & issue of BEE WORLD, but what other organ for publication would be appropriate to such oversight! The information was also published in Canadian Beekeeping. 1991 I would add that our review did elicit some aapparent annoyance among parties with vested interests in bombiculture. Cheers, Peter Kevan, U of Guelph, Canada