>I believe Randy termed them "mite bombs". In other disease they are called "Super-Spreaders". Thatīs also why limiting drift by the way hives are spaced/oriented can help reduce mite levels in an apiary at whole.
Spacing may help with drift, but mite bombs have a lot of range
Peck, Seeley(2019) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218392
". Evidently, intercolony distances of 300m (or perhaps considerably more) offer colonies little protection from acquiring mites through robbing"
Frey Et Al (2010) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.50.2.05
"From a practical perspective we could show that highly infested honey bee colonies present a substantial risk to already treated colonies up to distances of 1.5 km away."
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