A PLB snip regarding mite resistant bees – “You may be able to keep a couple of hives in single boxes and never have mite problems, but what's the point?”

To paraphrase his opening line above, there’s a lot packed into that statement.

So if we don’t have, in his words, “big colonies that don't swarm, and we [can’t] locate them in good areas, where there are very likely to be plenty of other beekeepers” there’s no point in keeping bees!?

Another paraphrase comes to mind – “There are more things in beekeeping, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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