honey bee varroa mite
Arachnida > Acari > Varroidae
Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman, 2000
Host: honey bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus
Photographer: Stephen Ausmus, USDA Agricultural Research Service
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Description: 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.
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Stephen Ausmus, USDA Agricultural Research Service, http://www.forestryimages.org
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