"Our results clearly demonstrate a significant reduction in the reproductive success of Varroa mites...."
No one running a real breeding program should give a hang about any of this mite reproduction data. Such data is totally irrelevant to the breeding program. Now once you have run the breeding program long enough to produce a bee that controls mites effectively and which no longer needs any special treatments in any normal climates where bees are kept, not even things like drone culling, it might or might not be interesting to look at such things and get some idea how the bees are doing their mite resistant gig. Until you are at that point such data is useless and can easy enough lead you to think you can tell the bees how to be mite resistant and with high odds go on a breeding pathway doomed to fail. Farmers who could not read or write knew this stuff 500 and 1000 years ago. Why can we not remember it?
Dick
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