Varroa Mites

[crazyness]

A couple of days ago i saw a bunch of drones dead in the ground near the hives.. some of them were still moving so i picked them one of them and it had varroa mites on them... its been 5 weeks and now everything seems to be normal.. no more dead bees... should i open up the hive and take a look at it?

How do bees fight the mites?

Thank you

btw, the colony was doing pretty good very strong hive...

[Kathyp]

no harm in looking, or doing a mite count, or using powdered sugar.  always better to see whats going on and avoiding a mess.

[pdmattox]

Some say they have mite resistant stock and they dont treat for them. Others don't have the same stock of bees and treat for mites. If you have a mite problem I would treat them.

[rdy-b]

you know you have mites  you saw one no brainer knock them down and save your bees they dont go away on there own do a mite count to determine if treatment should be hard or soft treating is easy no reason not to you will be fine 8-) RDY-B

[Michael Bush]

Some bees are hygienic and will chew out infested brood.  They will also groom off mites and some will guard the door and not let bees in who have mites.  Some bees do some of these things.  Some do none of them.