image: Varroa mites contribute to the transmission of serious viral diseases of honeybees. Female mites reproduce on developing bees and use adult bees for transport and as food resources. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.M. Villalobos at University of Hawaii in Manoa, HI, and colleagues was titled, 'The mite that jumped, the bee that traveled, the disease that followed.' view more
Credit: Zhening Zhang, University of Hawaii