"Have you seen them carry a mite?
       Record big hives will have ants under them.  Is it because the
beekeeper doesn't work the hive for the ants or are the ants helping the
hive?"

Wouldn't it be great to find a kind of ant that liked mites but not bees?
The red ants just seem to want the dead bees, there are some aggressive
grey ants that try to get into the hives, but the worst are those little
black ants which give beekeepers around here as much trouble as Varroa and
AFB. They regularly cause hives to abscond.

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