ArticlePloS one2016
Varroa destructor Mites Can Nimbly Climb from Flowers onto Foraging Honey Bees.
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- Influence of Hyperthermia Treatment on Varroa Infestation, Viral Infections, and Honey Bee Health in Beehives.Insects · 2025Review
- Avoiding the tragedies of parasite tolerance in Darwinian beekeeping.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- A mathematical model for the spread of Varroa mites in honeybee populations: two simulation scenarios with seasonality.Heliyon · 2022Article
- The threat of pesticide and disease co-exposure to managed and wild bee larvae.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2022Review
- Understanding the Enemy: A Review of the Genetics, Behavior and Chemical Ecology of Varroa destructor, the Parasitic Mite of Apis mellifera.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2022Review
- Raised seasonal temperatures reinforce autumn Varroa destructor infestation in honey bee colonies.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Honey bees increase social distancing when facing the ectoparasiteScience advances · 2021Article
- Integrated Pest Management Control of Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae), the Most Damaging Pest of (Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)) Colonies.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2021Review
- Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes.Current opinion in insect science · 2021Review
- Effects of sugar feeding supplemented with three plant extracts on some parameters of honey bee colonies.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Haplotype Analysis ofFrontiers in insect science · 2021Article
- Factors Associated with Honey Bee Colony Losses: A Mini-Review.Veterinary sciences · 2020Review
- Inventory of Varroa destructor susceptibility to amitraz and tau-fluvalinate in France.Experimental & applied acarology · 2020Article
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- Flowering plant composition shapes pathogen infection intensity and reproduction in bumble bee colonies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- The discovery of Varroa destructor on drone honey bees, Apis mellifera, at drone congregation areas.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Using an in vitro system for maintaining Varroa destructor mites on Apis mellifera pupae as hosts: studies of mite longevity and feeding behavior.Experimental & applied acarology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Varroa destructor, the introduced parasite of European honey bees associated with massive colony deaths, spreads readily through populations of honey bee colonies, both managed colonies living crowded together in apiaries and wild colonies living widely dispersed in natural settings. Mites are hypothesized to spread between most managed colonies via phoretically riding forager bees when they engage in robbing colonies or they drift between hives. However, widely spaced wild colonies show Varroa infestation despite limited opportunities for robbing and little or no drifting of bees between colonies. Both wild and managed colonies may also exchange mites via another mechanism that has received remarkably little attention or study: floral transmission. The present study tested the ability of mites to infest foragers at feeders or flowers. We show that Varroa destructor mites are highly capable of phoretically infesting foraging honey bees, detail the mechanisms and maneuvers by which they do so, and describe mite behaviors post-infestation.
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