How do you pronounce Varroa ??

[denart]

I have only read the word varroa, and as I read it I say  "va - roar - ah" Silly question but it is bugging me. I may need to say it to someone, and would like to pronounce it correctly.
Dennis

[Jerrymac]

I pronounce it with my mouth :lol:  :lol:

Seriously I think it is va - row - ah

[Myron Rotruck]

Most of the time I say it wrong to. but the name don't bother me that much. It's them little critters that I hate. And I've got some now that I'am trying to get to understand that they are NOT welcome here.  :x

[Brian D. Bray]

Just say Destructor.

[Michael Bush]

I can't say it's right, but it's what I've heard most peoepl say.  vuh ROW uh.

While were're at it, how do you pronounce propolis?  
PROP oh lus or proe Pah lus ?

[latebee]

I guess I have heard it both ways. The way I pronounce propolis, rhymes with metropolis.

[mark]

doesn't anyone have a dictionary? :)

[Michael Bush]

Are Varroa or Propolis in your dictionary?  They weren't in the ones I tried.

[mark]

actually .....  yes
 prop-o-lis  n,  a resinous substance collected from various plants by honeybees and used together with wax in the construction of  their hives.
     
  var-ro-a  n,  a reddish-brown oval mite(varroa jacobsoni) that is a parasite of honeybees.  new latin varroa, genus name,after Varro, Marcus Terentius.

     also ,  they will be found at dictionary.com

[denart]

L  I  B   HOW BOUT TAT

[Michael Bush]

But how do you pronounce them?

[empilolo]

I would recommend

//www.dictionary.com

which uses more than one dictionary, actually. But to save you the trouble

var·ro·a

prop·o·lis

and some information on varroa at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor