> The honeybee was able to overcome the wax moth back in the mid 1800's

It was?  How did I miss this?  Peter? Joe Waggle?  I feel you both let us
all down by never mentioning any of this in all the historical anecdotes you
both tell.

I had no idea that wax moths were, at some point in the past, an actual
direct pest of honey bees, and that the bees "overcame" them.  I was
apparently misinformed thinking that wax moths only infested weak or dying
hives, and performed a valuable service in eliminating diseased comb so that
the next swarm to move into the cavity would not be affected.

What did the wax moth do directly to the honey bee, and how did the honey
bee overcome this to change the relationship to what we have today?

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