The life cycles of both mites are generally similar and intimately linked to their honey bee hosts, although onlyVarroaspp. alternate between clearly distinct dispersal and reproductive stages. The entire reproductive stage is performed inside a brood cell in the honey bee colony and starts with a ...
We use this percentage population change for each of the 15 pallets for all upcoming analyses as a simple and transparent metric related to the change in the health of the bees from early summer to fall. The percentage changes in bee populations are negative except for two, DC-2 and DC-5...