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Re: Workshop on introducing bumblebees to Australia
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John Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:29:16 EDT
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From Sci.Ag.beekeeping:
<<Hi everybody,
What about bumble-bees ? In our French beekeeper's forum it was lately
posted that one found a big bumble-bee in bad shape with 5 varroas on
his back!!.>>

<<"Kevan & Laverty (1990) warned about the possibility of spreading Varroa
mites (a serious pest of honeybees) by other insects, including bumblebees,
although it is not thought to be a critical problem according to Chris
Plowright.>>

OK, I understand that if varroa was a problem parasite for bumblebees, we
would know about it by now probably. But is there any research, eyewitness
accounts or scientific evidence that bumblebees are vectors, or carriers, of
varroa or tracheal mites?

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