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> >I thought the term "dispersal phase" would create a visual image of mites
> moving to other colonies and motivate beekeepers to prevent mites from
> reaching that stage.
That would help. But keep in mind that the dispersal phase mainly refers
to the mites within the hive. Any time a mite is not within a cell, it is
in the dispersal phase, since it still feeds on hosts (as opposed to a
phoretic phase, in which no feeding takes place).
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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