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29-07-2009, 01:46 PM
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| | | Bee with blobs below thorax
Please tell me what are the bobs between this bee's thorax and abdomen. Bee seemed healthy and visiting all the flowers quite normally. Thanks!  |
29-07-2009, 01:47 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
The blobs are mites. |
29-07-2009, 01:58 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
Yes, and harmless - particularly those few! They're opportunistic, often just hitching a lift. Oh, and welcome to WAB  |
29-07-2009, 02:08 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
Thanks for info, reassurance, and the welcome! |
29-07-2009, 02:37 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
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Originally Posted by Jason Green  Yes, and harmless - particularly those few! They're opportunistic, often just hitching a lift. | That's good to know Jason. I have quite a few pics of bees with mites on and assumed they were parasitic and that the bee was suffering. Nice to know that's not the case.
Welcome from me too Dilly, and thanks for asking the question!
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29-07-2009, 02:43 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
Yes its worth noting that these mites, actually feed on waste in the nest and are benificial to the colony (although to many on a bee may be negative due to the added weight, blocking breathing tubes, prohibit reproduction etc). However bumblebees do carry other mites which live in the breathing tubes (tracheae) and cause negative affects. |
29-07-2009, 11:34 PM
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| | | Re: Bee with blobs below thorax
I'm also glad to know this!! I had been thinking too the bee actually suffered terribly from these mites!and I had been horrified when I discovered them on my pics of bees! | | |
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