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)
That is not a scorpion, but a psuedo scorpion. They eat Varroa mites...
Thanks, Michael - glad to hear it!
Who sells them?
I've never bought one... they just live in my hives sometimes. Someone might sell them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion
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