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IT has been suggested from time to time that there may be relationships between acarine disease of honeybees and weather or other environmental factors; but such a view has also often received strongly reasoned opposition, as by Phillips1 and Morgenthaler2, and no reliable relationship with a weather factor has so far been forthcoming.
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JEFFREE, E. Acarine Disease of the Honeybee and Temperature. Nature 175, 91 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175091a0
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