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Honey Bees
How is it that these wild, free living bees manage to avoid being wiped out by the verula mite? Well, we're not totally sure, but one of he things that we know is that the honey bee is extremely sensitive to feramones. Thereis something called veroa sensitive hygiene, which is the hygienic behavior of the honey bee. And that they can smell er pupa that ar that have got vera breeding on them. So they uncap the cells, pull the pupe out, cannibalize it. O, and then, er, they don't get the diseases associated with the veromite,. Which may actually be the greatest problem, and
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