Varroa jacobsoni
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| Varroa jacobsoni Oudemans, 1904 |
Varroa jacobsoni mites are a relatively benign parasite of Apis cerana (Asian honey bees).
Until very recently it was thought that they were the cause of the varroatosis, a parasitic disease that plagues Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, since the early 1960s. Only in 2000 a separate species of Varroa, Varroa destructor, was positively identified as the only Varroa mites that can reproduce in colonies of Apis mellifera.
