Hello Morten,
 
His address is:
                  Alois Wallner
                  Perwarth 7
                  A-3263 Randegg
                  Austria
 
He just wrote an article in "Deutsches Bienenjournal" 2/96.
He selects to varroa resistance and says, that he has a group of colonies,
which he didn't treat for 6 years. He calls his bees "killerbees", certainly
in another than the common sense.
 
Regards,
R.E.B.
 
NISI APES FINIS
 
On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Morten Brixtofte Petersen wrote:
 
> Hello Beepeople.
> The current discussion about mite resistant bees made me wonder what
> happened to some apparently good breeding material:
>
> In an article from 1992 in the journal "Apidologie" F. Ruttner et al.
> describes a strain of
> Apis mellifera carnica with active defence against varroa. The article is
> referred by E. Southwick in the American Bee Journal sometime in 1992 (as
> far as I remember) he included a picture from the original article as well.
> The bees of this strain apparently mutilate the mites e.g. "bites" off the legs
> of the mites. According to the article this strains of bees had good
> owerwintering capability WITHOUT treatment. The bees were selected by
> an Austrian beekeeper named Alois Wallner.
>
> Does anyone out there know what happened to this strain of bees?
> Is it possible to by breeding material (queens or semen) from this strain?
>
> References: Apidologie (1992) 23, 173-187 Active defense against Varroa
> mites in a Carnolian strain of honeybee (Apis mellifera carnica Pollmann).
>
> Thank you
> Regards
> Morten Petersen
> Denmark, Scandinavia
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