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Anthony Appleyard

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Mites in honeybees are merely a pest. But the females of some solitary bees (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarinarium ) have a special place to carry mites as they fly, and leave those mites in their nests, and there those mites guard the solitary bee's larvae against pests by eating those pests.
 
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