Hi Timothy

> if you get *two* Varroa 
> mites entering a single cell, then the male offspring of each one can 
> mate with the female offspring of the other, so there is some 
> opportunity for genetic mixing to go on. It's just that this opportunity 
> for genetic mixing mostly happens when the mite population is pretty high.

Unfortunately the varroa mites throughout the colony are so closely 
related that they are effectively clones, so even if two do enter a cell 
there is no genetic mixing, because the all the males and all the 
females exhibit the same genes.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman or http://www.dave-cushman.net
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