| 5486206 |
Adult(s) |
varroa mites on drone pupa |
| 5466918 |
Adult(s) |
mouthparts |
| 5466919 |
Adult(s) |
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| 5466922 |
Adult(s) |
mouthparts |
| 5466920 |
Adult(s) |
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| 5466921 |
Adult(s) |
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| 5466917 |
Adult(s) |
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| 5429630 |
Infestation |
The adult bees have mites attached to them. |
| 5429628 |
Infestation |
Some of the adult bees have mites attached to their backs |
| 1355032 |
Feature(s) |
Scientists in the ARS Beneficial Insects Research Unit at Weslaco, Texas, have found that a strain of the fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae, is deadly to Varroa mites, such as this one on an adult worker bee's thorax. |
| 1317031 |
Adult(s) |
European honey bee with a Varroa mite on its back. The mites cause death and disease in bee colonies. |
| 1355029 |
Feature(s) |
A young worker bee emerges from a brood cell with a mite on its back. |
| 1355030 |
Research |
Artificial insemination of a queen. Semen is about to be injected into the oviducts of a queen bee. Thereafter the sperm cells migrate to the sperm storage pouch of the queen. A queen gradually releases sperm from this pouch to fertilize the eggs she lays during her lifetime. |
| 1355031 |
Research |
Collecting semen from a drone honey bee that will be used to artificially inseminate a queen bee. |
| 1318100 |
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A family of varroa mites found at the bottom of a honey bee brood cell. |
| 1319002 |
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Visible as a dark, oval shape, an adult female varroa mite feeds on the midsection of a developing worker bee. |
| 1319004 |
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An adult female Varroa mite feeds on a developing bee. |
| 1321060 |
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