Severe infestation occurs when brood rearing is at its highest, during nectar flows, so that colonies often crash with abundant honey right after a flow. Treatment for the mites is difficult because of the biological similarities and requirements of both the mite and the honeybee host. An additional problem is that chemicals used within a honeybee colony must be food safe because they could get into the honey, thus contaminating it. If you keep honeybees, you probably have both mites and you need to learn how to safely treat your bees to help them fight off these attacks. If you have depended upon wild honeybees for pollination of large blocks of fruiting crops, you need to look at all pollinator activity and take action to achieve the pollinator populations necessary.
Fruits are bait produced by plants to facilitate seed scattering.
Pollination is required to produce seeds and the seeds produce a hormone causing the development of the fruit. The number of seeds set determine the amount of hormone and thus the fruit size. Misshapen fruit are often the result of poor pollination. Pollinators are required by many flowers to move heavy, sticky pollen from one flower to another to produce seeds. Growers thus need to preserve the pollinators they have by avoiding their destruction by sprays, preserve habitat, and actively encourage pollinators by establishing suitable habitat.