I haven’t followed all of the discussion on varroa and treatment free hives but has anyone mentioned this paper yet? “Host adaptations reduce the reproductive success of Varroa destructor in two distinct European honey bee populations” Barbara Locke, Yves Le Conte, Didier Crauser & Ingemar Fries http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402190/pdf/ece30002-1144.pdf Bil, France *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm