Scoring broken caps

[Tomme Trikosko]

#001578  How should broken caps revealing unpigmented adult forms be scored?  drtri.rm

[Reed Johnson]

I think those should be scored as "Dead".  It is kind of rare to see uncapped pupae like that -- but it is a sure sign that those pupae will never emerge into adult bees.  That particular colony died/absconded and the capped brood were left without nurse bees to maintain them.

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Tomme Trikosko <dr...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

#001578  How should broken caps revealing unpigmented adult forms be scored?  drtri.rm

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[Bryant Weber]

Actually, this is normal behavior for a VSH colony. They uncap and re-cap brood where they think varroa are present. I breed VSH queens. It was disturbing to me at first but many to most of these recapped larvae survive. When they start chewing they out then they are dead.

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[Tomme Trikosko]

Thank you both for the information---very interesting, especially about the VSH behavior.

I will score the exposed pupae and the multi-perforate caps dead until told otherwise.