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From: The Varroa paradox: infestation levels and hygienic behavior in feral scutellata-hybrid and managed Apis mellifera ligustica honey bees

Figure 2

There were no significant behavioral differences between feral (scutellata-hybrid) and managed (A. mellifera ligustica) bees in any assay measure within any month (P > 0.05). We show the typical results for representative behaviors: the number of times bees with mites cleaned their (A) head or (B) thorax. However, the percentage of time that bees with mites spent (C) weakly cleaning slightly and significantly increased over time (P = 0.027). (D) The percentage of time that bees with mites spent intensely cleaning slightly decreased over time (P = 0.029), mainly between April and March. Box plots overlaid with violin plots and all data points are shown. Different letters indicate differences between behaviors by month (Tukey HSD tests, P < 0.05).

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