This is a good question:
I should like to know why you are of the
> opinion that honeybees are getting weaker and weaker?
>
because you can see it when you look at honeybees where artificial breeding
methods (artificial insemination, artificial queenbreeding, using the larvae of
worker bees) are the standard. The honeybee is not strong enough anymore to
compete with diseases. You can't recon in a period of 10 or 20 years, but in a
period of about 100 years.
 
 
> I have neither seen nor heard any evidence to that effect.
 
I know lots of beekeepers loosing many hives per year (in Germany 1997 the whole
loss was estimated with at least with 60%.
 
 
> To me this sounds like claiming a cure for a non existent complaint.
 
In this point you are not right, you just need to open your eyes!
 
regard
 
 
Michael Thiele