> Varroa jacobsoni mates in the capped cells with the pupae. The mother mite
> enters the cell just before it is capped and immediately goes to the bottom
> of the cell and feeds on the worker or drone jelly. Then moves up and feeds
> on the prepupa. Then 60 hours after capping the female lays her first egg,
> generally a male, then subsequent eggs laid are female. They hatch and mate
> before the bee is ready to hatch. So the mating is definitely sister/brother.
Does this pass the all, every, and any test? I think not. Two unrelated varroa
mothers could conceivably wind up in the same cell.
allen