๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Varroa mite live?

Varroa jacobsoni has 35,222 records in 6 countries and territories, from 1984 to 2019. Most records come from Poland.

Varroa mite
Varroa mite โ€” Kathryn Sparks AQIS, Victoria / CC BY 3.0 au ยท 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 35,208
Thailand 8
Finland 2
France 2
Germany 1
Papua New Guinea 1

Related animals

Others in the family Varroidae.

Honey bee mite
Honey bee mite
189,666 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.