Keith:
Open up the books by Bailey, Ball, Gilliam.....i.e. Pests, Predators and Diseases and simply read. Nothing hard. Even Al Dietz wrote some on the subject matter. Much is interdependent within a beehive with insects and micro-organisms working together. Always has and always will be, no matter what man thinks shouldn't bee there. Break the balance and then you create problems; and man is certainly good at that with the bigger is better junk.
Dee A. Lusby
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