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A sweat bee with some mites

Posted by Kayla Edmunds,
North Country explorer from Piffard, NY
June 8, 2022 —

This sweat bee seemed to have some sort of mites bothering it, not sure if it’s the same mite that infests honeybee hives (Varroa destructor) or something similar or even completely different.