Colene wrote:
> It always surprises me that people are so mystified at how nature works.
> If we take a step back and look at the honey bee-mite resistance and
> compare that to bacteria-antibiotic resistance we all should have realized
> that 100% of the feral hives would not be mite killed. There would be
> that small percentage that would have survived. Those few hives would
> have continued to produce bees resistant to mites.
Colene, I think I understand where you are coming from here.
I will simply state that both the human (American Chestnut for example) and
the fossil record show that whole species do die off at times.In light of
that I would say that -on a natural plane- survival of the honey bee is
not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
To all who posted about pollen collection-thanks!
I ended up not using some pollen a few days old even though it looked
good....nutrition and high humidity considerations.
John Horton
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