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  1. 16-04-2016, 10:59 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by gavin View Post
    Interesting paper mentioned on the IBRA Facebook page today.....

    The full paper: “Grooming behaviour by worker bees of various subspecies of honey bees to remove Varroa destructor mites” by Beata Bąk and Jerzy Wilde (sadly not free to view) can be found here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...9.2016.1147791[/I]
    There's an older paper, looking at hygienic behaviour, by the same authors which came to a similar conclusion:

    Comparison of Hygienic Behaviour Between Five Honey Bee Breeding Lines by Bak et al 2010

    http://www.jas.org.pl/pdf/219?filena...4_2_2010_2.pdf
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