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[LOCKED] [INFO] Varrao mites, huh?
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mst3k_freak
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 		[INFO] Varrao mites, huh?
At http://www.ilovebees.com/honey.html and http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Questions we see the term Varrao Mites mentioned.

Unfortunately, Aunt M misspelled the name of the mites, which might be part of the reason she's having so much trouble with them. They are called Varroa mites

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Varroa mites are external honeybee parasites that attack both the adults and the brood, with a distinct preference for drone brood. They suck the blood from both the adults and the developing brood, weakening and shortening the life span of the ones on which they feed. Emerging brood may be deformed with missing legs or wings. Untreated infestations of varroa mites that are allowed to increase will kill honeybee colonies.


Here is a nasty pic of the mite itself (along with the source quoted above):

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef608.htm

Here is a pic of the mites at work:

http://www.kohala.net/bees/varroa.html

These things are apparently very resistant to chemicals and are the biggest threat to beekeepers. Another problem is that many of the chemical remedies leave potentially toxic residues in the beeswax and/or honey. One suggested remedy was to blow tobacco smoke into the hive and seal it up overnight.

Their life cycle is pretty interesting:

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As a member of the class, Arachnida (other mites, ticks, spiders, scorpions), these organisms have four pairs of walking legs. [...] As other arthropods, Varroa mites lay eggs. A female Varroa mite will enter the larval bee cell 1 or 2 days before the cell is capped by workers. The mite feeds of the hemolymph of the larva which gives her the energy to produce one unfertilized and one or more fertilized eggs, hatching into male and female mites, respectively. The male matures first and mates with the females. In this way the females can lay up to 7 eggs in a cell. Not all of these progeny reach maturity, however. When the bee reaches maturity and chews its way out of the cell, all immature mites perish. Because of this the mother mite may only reproduce herself once per cell (one live female offspring). In drone cells the reproduction rate is higher and indeed Varroa seem to favor drone cells to worker cells. Once the bee emerges the mites (including the mother) are free to roam about the hive and repeat the cycle. The average life expectancy for Varroa mites is about 50 days.


from http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/rf/varroa/varroa.html

It might be significant that these mites and spiders are in the same family. July 5 is 50 days before August 24, and October 13 is 50 days later. I'm just shooting in the dark now, but I thought the misspelling and the info about the mites.........might be appropriate.

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mst3k_freak
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 		[TRIVIA] Slightly more useless....
This site is where most of the animated bee gifs on ILB came from. It's your typical annoying gif collection website, and not ingame. There is a girl on the "residents" page named Dana, but it's not the same one.

Is it just me, or is the trail running dry?

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krystyn
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 		Hi, mst3k_freak!

Both of these things have been covered, in many threads.

varroa mites? Look no further for just one of many posts in one of the many threads I found by searching for posts in the category of Haunted Apiary.

as for the animated gifs, your sleuthing work is excellent, but we actually already have a thread referring to Jo Graham, right here! All I did was do a search for the term, "jograham." Voila.

Search is not only your friend, but the friend of the thousands of people reading these forums to find new information. Please, use it. And, welcome!

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