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The vast majority of growers do bring in bees to pollinate apples,” said Clayton Griffin, director of the Virginia State Apple Board. out good pollination, there’s very .definitely a negative economic impact to growers.”
In Florida, where the mite has : been around since 1987, there’s been significant damage at least to some individuals, said Malcolm T. Sand, ford, Extension beekeeping specialist at the University of Florida.
“There’s no ongoing program to . determine how much damage has : been done, but no doubt, some people who didn’t know about looking out for the mite have been hit pretty hard,” he said.
Like ticks, varroa mites attach to their hosts and feed off the carriers’ blood, Prof. Fell said. In honeybee colonies, the mites also attack developing bee larvae and pupae, causing deformities. This is the major cause of damage to honeybee colonies, he said. Over the course of a few years,
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