Laurence Edwards shows a bee colony destroyed by Varroa destructor mites, with thousands of dead bees on the hive floor and brood left untended. A subscriber sent in a cluster so covered in mites Edwards calls it the worst infestation he's ever seen. The queen survives but the colony is collapsing.
Have you ever seen a colony of bees collapse due to high levels of varroa? These bees have died because the varroa mite has ravaged the colony. Hundreds and hundreds and thousands of bees dying on the bottom of that board, and it's all due to the varroa mites. The queen is still alive, a handful of bees left, but you can see here open cappings in the brood, untended, and then you have bees with their tongues sticking out. That is classic sign of varroa damage. Take a look at this last cluster of bees. They are covered in varroa mites. I've never seen one this bad. It was sent in to me by a subscriber to my channel, but I think it shows you really well just how bad the damage can be.
