I finally got back into the hive today. I did sugar rolls on this colony and the one next to it. This one had a single mite, and a speck of "maybe" and the one beside it had five mites in samples of 300.
So they're not over run now, although they might have been three weeks ago.
This colony had some uncapped worker pupae like before but not as many. I used a little twig to pull four of them out of the cell. Two had a couple specks like my first picture, one was clean, and the last one looks like this.
Holy camoly what is that?
They are red-brown, about the color of an adult mite. They are all about the same size. They are cylindrical, and it looks like three segments maybe? And shiny outside. Really very tiny and I didn't try to smush or cut one open.
Like turds.
Or egg sacs.
My partner there at the farm thinks he saw one move. I looked real close for quite a while and didn't see movement.
Whatcha think now?
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