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Subject:	Re: WAS 2015 ANd Bee Culture 4 pillars
From:	Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:14:23 +1100
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> His comment  "mite treatments that kill a high percentage of mites,  lead 
> to
> the mites building up restiance faster than a treatments that kills a
> smaller percentage."
>
> Now doing a bit of math and logic,  this seems just wrong.  Mathematically
> it is.  No doubt.

But not biologicaly.

>  If I kill 99% of something  then only 1 is "restraint"
> and if I kill 80% of something  then I have 20 resistant.  20 will breed 
> up
> faster  than 1.  No way about it.

The logic is that the 20% will not all be as resistent as the 1%.  So the 1% 
will breed truly resistent offspring into an environmnt with no competition.

Geoff Manning 

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