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Though treatments can be administered, host drones can carry the mites between hives and reinfest colonies the next day, according to Danielle Downey, director of operations for Project Apis m.

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2016

Trouble there is that ticks are carried not only by cattle, horses, mules and sheep, which can be dipped, but also by deer, which cannot be dipped and might reinfest clean animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

To our chagrin we found that, while we were diligently picking the nuts up each day, some of the larvae were escaping through the cotton bags to reinfest the ground.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association