Keith Malone wrote:

> If you want the beekeeping industry to succeed we have to
> get over this fear that you speak of. Operating in fear does not sound to me
> to be the American way, we need to be free, Free of fear. Varroa mites
> appear to be having you running your hives scared, and that's to bad.

The beekeeping industry is not in fear but is searching for a solution
for Varroa. To wait for results on unproven techniques is not fear but
rational and pragmatic. To bet the farm on an experiment that has had
spotty results is irrational.

It is wonderful that you are successful with small cells, but so was I
(5.0 not 4.9) for a while. We need more than the data points we have so
far to invest a whole industry, especially when there are reports from
disinterested testers that have encountered problems.

Occasionally this list seems like it should be renamed the Beekeeping
Deja vu List.

Or the Anecdotal True Believer Beekeeping List. Ah, but there is one
already.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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