Regarding developing fungi or other such agents to control varroa in bee
colonies:
As with any approach, there can be successes and there can be failures.
The failures can be as useful as the successes. Here is a small study
in which the fungii did not have any noticable effect on the varroa:
http://www.honeycouncil.ca/users/folder.asp?FolderID=2276
allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com
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