Peter asks:
Thanks Bob - but which Varroa Handbook - there are so many now!

The Varroa Handbook
"Biology and Control"
By
Bernard Mobus and Larry Conner

The booklet was written by two authors , in two different continents on
varroa. The information was the most up-to-date known in the spring of 1988.

Because the publication was already being made when varroa was first
discovered in Oct. of 1987 in the U.S. the varroa j. pictures were not of
varroa d. which we now know is what we had at the time in the U.S..

Later pictures marked varroa j. but taken in the U.S. by researchers and
published in the bee magazines we now know were in fact varroa  d. and not
varroa j.

The Varroa Handbook is a hard book to find. Every time I see Larry I ask
when the updated version is coming out. Larry sold out of copies about 10
years ago.

Quote from the publisher:
"We would expect to publish further editions of this handbook as knowledge
of varroa jacobsoni changes"

Larry Conner if you are reading the above is it not about time for an
update?

Bob

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