Do you know what the mite drop was before you requeened?
 Since we are
talking about Hives and not 2 or 3 frame nucs the mite load could have
already been quite high in  no. 1 hive *if* you did not treat in spring, or
If you did you did not get a good control in spring or your treatment the 
fall before
was not effective.

The VHS bees I have looked at have not impressed me but steps in the right
direction.

Our tax dollars paid for SMR & VHS plus a top notch protein sub why are the 
prices so high?

Dann Purvis inseminated over a 1000 queens of his gold line and passed out 
free to southern beekeepers?

Why doesn't the Baton Rouge Bee lab simply inseminate VHS queens and pass 
out *breeder queens*
to beekeepers?

The Russian program was paid for with tax dollars but the first breeder 
queens cost around $500 dollars.

Are Russian beekeepers still buying new queens each year to keep the line 
pure? I have seen a few *yellow* russian queens around. Surely a Italian 
drone didn't sneak in?

bob

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