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Kim goes over the deep end
> How good are Australian bees? Beekeepers tell me it's a mixed bag, but then it's a mixed bag when it comes to U.S. bees, too. There are problems that border on severe, sometimes anyway, that don't show up with U.S. bees to the same degree ... a disease that kills the young called chalkbrood is one problem that hasn't gone away and hasn't been fixed by the senders.
> They don't have varroa mites in Australia, so there's no selection process that looks for resistance to this vicious pest ... a resistance and a tolerance, I might add, that not only exists in the U.S., but is slowly becoming the dominant strain of bees available in the country. [?]
see:
Why the U.S. Should Stop Importing Bees from Australia
Chapter and Verse On Imports, Off-shore Pollination and Averting a
Collapse of U.S. Bees
December 15, 2008 at 7:49AM by Kim Flottum
www.thedailygreen.com
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