D. Murrell wrote:
>I really don't expect an answer, as I've never gotten one from any of the
>critics of small cell. They will spend hours on the computer criticizing
>what others have done. But they have nothing to offer in its place.
>
>They don't even have a plan

See my article last year in American Bee Journal titled "Keeping Bees
Without Chemicals".

The plan is to get and keep varroa resistant stock, mimic natural swarming
by dividing colonies, let susceptible bees die, avoid areas where there are
large numbers of commercial beekeepers who are treating for varroa, etc.
 
Currently I do not own bees as I am forbidden to do so as a NY State bee
inspector. However, I have spent hundreds of hours on the problem of varroa
resistant bees, how to get them, and how to keep them. 

pb

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