>Referring now to Mark Spagnolo's post I do not understand his statement
that
>if beeeding is the answer to controlling mites, a mite free environment is
>crucial.  I would have thought the opposite would be true.

>Chris Slade

I think there is a critical need for a mite free environment to provide us a
fail-safe in the event we cannot control the mites. If we run out of
controls for the multiple pests that we are now seeing in our hives (mites,
beetles, AFB) and suffer a national or even global collapse of honeybee
populations it would be nice to have a population to recover from.