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Causes: '''''Varroatosis — Varoosis — Colony Collapse Syndrome'''''
Causes: '''''Varroatosis — Varoosis — Colony Collapse Syndrome'''''
[[Image:Varroa Mite .jpg|right|150px|thumb|Kika De La Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center Weslaco, Texas, USA (Wikimedia Commons)]]
[[Image:Varroa Mite .jpg|right|200px|thumb|Kika De La Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center Weslaco, Texas, USA (Wikimedia Commons)]]
[[Image:Varroa Mite on honeybee pupa.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Kika De La Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center Weslaco, Texas, USA (Wikimedia Commons)]]
[[Image:Varroa Mite on honeybee pupa.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Kika De La Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center Weslaco, Texas, USA (Wikimedia Commons)]]
[[File:Family of varroa mites.jpg|thumb|A group of male and immature mites left in a cell after the bee has emerged with the fertilised females<br><small>Copyright USDA 2003 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
[[File:Family of varroa mites.jpg|thumb|200px|A group of male and immature mites left in a cell after the bee has emerged with the fertilised females<br><small>Copyright USDA 2003 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
[[File:Adult female varroa mite.jpg|thumb|A mature female mite feeds on a developing worker brood<br><small>Copyright USDA 2003 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
[[File:Adult female varroa mite.jpg|thumb|200px|A mature female mite feeds on a developing worker brood<br><small>Copyright USDA 2003 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
| As above.
| As above.
| The honey bee mite has an oval body with all 8 legs on one side of the body.
| The honey bee mite has an oval body with all 8 legs on one side of the body.
|[[File:Varroa Mite .jpg|thumb|150px|<small>Copyright Artic 2005 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
|[[File:Varroa Mite .jpg|thumb|100px|<small>Copyright Artic 2005 Wikimedia Commons</small>]]
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| The '''bee louse''' ''Braula coeca''
| The '''bee louse''' ''Braula coeca''
| The louse is insignificant as a cause of disease
| The louse is insignificant as a cause of disease
| The body has a more rounded shape (compared to the marked oval shape of ''V. destructor'') and its 6 legs extend outside the margins of the body on either side.
| The body has a more rounded shape (compared to the marked oval shape of ''V. destructor'') and its 6 legs extend outside the margins of the body on either side.
|[[File:Braula coeca.jpg|thumb|150px|<small>Sourced from Wikimedia Commons]]
|[[File:Braula coeca.jpg|thumb|100px|<small>Sourced from Wikimedia Commons]]
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| ''Tropilaelaps spp.''
| ''Tropilaelaps spp.''