In a message dated 09/12/2008 14:35:44 GMT Standard Time,
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I askedSeeley if the bees would survive in a normal apiary and his answer
was no.
Seeley tried moving isolated colonies from the forest to established
apiaries and they were as susceptible to Vd as others in the apiary; hence his views
about horizontal v vertical transmission of mites.
The purpose of the small scale, but hopefully wide-spread, experiment I
suggested would be to find out more about the bees themselves rather than their
commercial management, although lessons learned may pay a commercial dividend.
Chris
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