>> those who still desperately
>> cling to the fantasy of a "threshold" 
>> ("seasonally-adjusted" or not)...

> Agree - we did several years of mite research - 
> mite numbers on Monday don't mean much 
> by Friday.  Colonies expected to experience 
> rapid mite increase may not - those that look 
> good may go under.  There is no magic number. 

> ...you have to monitor, follow the trends

Of course, but what to do when "advice" is offered by beekeepers defending
the desperate clinging to thresholds that attempts to position the
reality-based beekeeping stance as "inflammatory words", simply because it
exposes the desperate clinging to thresholds as the bunkum that it is?

The gap between beekeepers and science could not be wider.
How does one educate when such persistent hubris still exists after 30 solid
years of failure to control varroa using the beekeeper-preferred approach?  

It reminds me of the climate-science deniers.  The dozens of studies that
support the "no free lunch", and "this is not easy" realities are ignored in
favor of the single study that contradicts the dozens of studies.  

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