> What is interesting about the above description is that it was published
in 1911, one hundred years ago

That description is different from what we are seeing these days in
varroa-resistant bees.  What we see now is brood that was previously capped,
then uncapped at the purple-eyed stage, and then (apparently) recapped.

It appears to me that it is a mite-control measure that dessicates the male
and immature female mites--something that the bees "figured" out.

Randy Oliver

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