highly significantp < 0.001
GLM on Log-transformed data showed that week of sampling was highly significant (F 21;209 = 6.0; p < 0.001 ***) as well as the intra-treatment variability (F 3;209 = 4.5; p = 0.004 **), confirming that varroa mite infestation was irregularly but equally distributed among exposure and control sites, depending on the season (“date” factor) and on the single-hive history (“hive” factor).