Saturday 7 August 2010

A special behaviour of honeybees managing Varroa?



I watched this Worker bee drag this drone pupa out of the cell and attack the Varroa mite. Varroa mites have spread disease through all bee colonies in UK since being brought over here about 18 years ago. Beekeepers have been struggling to cope with the destruction they cause.I thought this was a pretty interesting behaviour really!

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