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>The SMR bees do not exist.
The trait was explained by Ibrahim and Spivak as
hygienic behavior.
I don't buy it! Dr. Harbo explained smr to me and the method to detect
those bees with the SMR trait. I have tested many hives with the SMR trait
which were NOT hygienic as defined by Marla.
Painting SMR as simply a form of hygienic behavior will not work for me!
Something else is going on with those bees and I believe involves the JGH or
a signal from the larva/cell which renders the mature varroa unable to mate.
If SMR was simply the removal of varroa infected brood I would have observed
such in observation hives and I have not.
Only my opinion but I worked with SMR bees for several years and had Glenn
apiaries SMR II breeder queens. Also Marla Spivak hygienic II breeder
queens.
I realize the hypothesis Joe has presented is being accepted but I still
don't buy it! I hope to live long enough to see the *SMR trait does not
exist* be proven incorrect.
Bob
"What we do not know is so vast it makes what we do know seem absurd!" Bob
Harrison
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