Oh ya, something that I saw last summer that made me feel very sad with emerging brood that I saw. And I now am pretty sure that it was a result of that ridiculous parasite -- varroa. I mentioned before in other posts that I had a really bad infestation that I was not aware of because I did not recognize symptoms of high levels. When I was watching some emerging brood, they looked good and came out and carried on to walk around a little on the comb. Other brood had tried to emerge but looked like it got interrrupted in its way out and was dead, with its poor tongue sticking out. By the way, there was no brood disease, I did keep a really close eye on that cause I knew what to look for. I think that this stinking varroa sucked all the fluids from these poor bees that managed to make it through to maturity, and when they finally broke out of their cell, they were so dehydrated that they tried to grab a last chance at life, and put their tongue out to get some nourishment, but it was probably too late, they died in their last attempt at life, chewing their way out of their cell. Oh...these poor little bees. Have an awesome day. Cindi