> considered a serious pest to a strong hive of bees.  I ask you how these
> arachinids are going to pull adult varroa off adult bees when they hid
> in cracks of hives?   How are they going to bypass nurse bees and pull
> varroa off larva being maintained by nurse bees when they live in corner
> cracks of hives?  I can't blame you for grabbing the research money and
> heading to south Africa.  I wouldn't mind going myself with our below
> zero weather in Missouri.  I remain very very skeptical.
>

My thoughts would be that they took advantage of fallen mites to gain a
quick snack.
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