Re: bees and mites

Rand Nicholson (writserv@mi.net)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 07:17:16 -0400

>Does anyone know exactly how these mites are killing off honney bees?
>Just curious.
>
>Not a single bee went anywhere near my Sarracenia flowers. So much for
>fear of hybridizing.
>
>--Zachary--

They choke off the breathing tubes, in which they live, of the infected bee.

Rand