🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Honey bee mite live?

Varroa destructor has 189,666 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1959 to 2026. Most records come from Poland.

Honey bee mite
Honey bee mite — GillesSM / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaArachnidaMesostigmataVarroidaeVarroa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Poland 188,713
Romania 213
United States 128
Taiwan 121
India 61
Türkiye 46
New Zealand 44
Belgium 33
Thailand 26
China 24
Iran 23
Germany 18
Vietnam 16
Sweden 14
Argentina 12
Canada 12
Syria 12
Australia 11
United Kingdom 11
France 9
Austria 8
Egypt 8
Spain 7
Honduras 7
Italy 7
Iraq 6
Mexico 6
Philippines 6
Netherlands 5
Japan 4
South Korea 3
Réunion 3
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2
Chile 2
Georgia 2
Greece 2
Mauritius 2
Slovakia 2
South Africa 2
Brazil 1

Showing the top 40 of 54 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Varroidae.

Varroa mite
Varroa mite
35,222 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.