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Re: Varroa destructor and Apis cerana
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Christine Gray <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:08:27 -0000
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From: "Bob Harrison  " Many researchers (not sure of Anderson's opinion)
believe that cerana has a
> different juvenile growth hormone which seems to deter varroa from
> reproducing in cerana  worker brood but only an unproven hypothesis but a
> hypothesis I tend to believe (at present time)"

Jim usually chips in at this sort of point to say that the chemical
composition of the juvenile hormone could be analysed by ...........
If there is a chemical difference, and it could be synthasied, migght this
not be very interesting indeed?

What thinks Jim?

Robin Dartington

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