ABSTRACT
Varroa jacobsoni was found in Italy for the first time in 1981 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2,4). Much to the amazement of many the following year a substantial centre of infection was discovered in central Italy on the boundary between Tuscany and Latium. The levels of infestation were much higher than they had been in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (1). Surveys carried out during the following years showed how the parasite could be found now in one Region and next in another without any gradual spread.
