Aaron Morris concluded:

>Based on the assertions and observations posted in the past few days I must
>back off my assertion that Varroa will not be found in queen cells.  I've
>never seen it myself, but then again I've never seen France.

   Perhaps the problem is one of percentages.  During low varroa incidence,
I know that I have to open perhaps dozens of drone cells before finding a
couple of varroa.  Unfortunately, we can hardly open that many queen cells
in a single colony or even in a number of colonies.  We thus can hardly
conclude that varroa mites do not occur in those cells.  (One can never
prove a universal negative.

                                                        Adrian

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