Hello

I am surprised at the number of inquiries about this. This is very old news.
Ten years ago people were putting just about anything in their smoker and
smoking it ;-)

But seriously folks, there's tons of stuff on the net referring to this
particular dead end street. GO to the following web site, which is a
snapshot of 1996:

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/varroa/

Collection of References (April, 1997)
* Varroa Mite and Tracheal Mite References (Several Thousand)

I. G.

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