Bob writes:

> thanks for the pictures of PMS!

The key point in Dennis's paper is the distinction that this in not PMS.

Shimanuki et al. (1994)
described this syndrome as part of their study of Parasitic
Mite Syndrome (PMS), but unlike the symptoms of PMS in
adult bees it is not believed that IBDS is caused by Varroa
mites.

We considered this brood
syndrome to be unassociated with those symptoms of PMS
in adult bees, which are thought to be directly caused by
Varroa mites. Our findings, as they relate to the symptoms
in brood (called here IBDS), do not support an association
with Varroa mites, as evidenced by a non-significant odds
ratio for the two factors. Indeed, even the reports that initially
described PMS suggested that the role of mites in the
symptoms in brood was likely secondary to the symptoms
described

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