Anthony Appleyard
House Bee
Have you heard of any sort of mite being useful to bees?
Some mites are useful to solitary bees: see Acarinarium - Wikipedia . According to Wikipedia, facilities for useful mites to ride on female carpenter bees have evolved to an extreme, even to species where the whole front end of the female bee's abdomen contains a large "passenger cabin" for the mites to ride in. The mites eat any fungi that try to eat the bee's brood.
Carpenter bee - Wikipedia
Some mites are useful to solitary bees: see Acarinarium - Wikipedia . According to Wikipedia, facilities for useful mites to ride on female carpenter bees have evolved to an extreme, even to species where the whole front end of the female bee's abdomen contains a large "passenger cabin" for the mites to ride in. The mites eat any fungi that try to eat the bee's brood.
Carpenter bee - Wikipedia