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Attract
Varroasis occurs with the Varroa entrance in the hive, carried by infected bees: the mite can begin its parasitism and attack the brood. When the queen gives birth to new larvaes in honeycombs, the fertilized adult female Varroa mite will come into it before capping, and lay her eggs. The larvaes will develop, increasing the overall infection that affects bee population. To tackle this issue, it is necessary to attract Varroa carried by honeybees before they come into the hive.
How to attract Varroa ?
Just before capping, bee larvaes produce a wide range of molecules, those molecules warn the mite about the upcoming capping and motivate it to enter the cell. Of all these molecule, scientific studies have shown that one can signicantly attract Varroa : butyrate.
