Aaron Morris concluded: >Based on the assertions and observations posted in the past few days I must >back off my assertion that Varroa will not be found in queen cells. I've >never seen it myself, but then again I've never seen France. Perhaps the problem is one of percentages. During low varroa incidence, I know that I have to open perhaps dozens of drone cells before finding a couple of varroa. Unfortunately, we can hardly open that many queen cells in a single colony or even in a number of colonies. We thus can hardly conclude that varroa mites do not occur in those cells. (One can never prove a universal negative. Adrian Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home phone) 967 Garcia Road (805) 893-8062 (UCSB FAX) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm] ******************************************************************** * * "However broad-minded one may be, he is always to some extent * the slave of his education and of his past." * * Emile Duclaux (1896; 1920 translation) * ********************************************************************