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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: tjc1 on September 06, 2017, 05:26:12 pm
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Noticed this on the bottom board today - sure looks like a tiny scorpion. The second photo shows it on its back near a varroa mite, for scale. Anyone know what it is? IT was clearly looking for things to eat - tangled with a live mite for a few seconds... I'm in Massachusetts, so we don't see scorpions here that I know of!
(https://i.imgur.com/jBaL3Ds.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NXhphRg.jpg)
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That is not a scorpion, but a psuedo scorpion. They eat Varroa mites...
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Thanks, Michael - glad to hear it!
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Who sells them?
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I've never bought one... they just live in my hives sometimes. Someone might sell them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion
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Last year there was a video out on a group testing them as a mite control. It is good
To know that they are getting into our hives.
Jim