Subject: Are these varroa mites?

From: [email-masked] (Andy Nachbaur)
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 16:23:00 GMT

<Todd says:>>

Bad news:

I went out yesterday to take a look at the hives and found out of six, five wer
dead.  Upon inspection I found the cause:  mites.  These were small, roundish,
red creatures, all dead.  Some were still attached to the bees in the segments
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Sorry to hear of your loss, did you treat your hives and they died,
or did they just die without treatment?
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