>
> >Are russian bees tested for hygenic behavoir of do they have another trait
> that helps them tolerate varroa better.


The Russians exhibit a wide variety of traits for varroa resistance--at my
last count, it was about 10 identified, so far.  This suggests to me that
when breeding bees for the future, that focus on any single varroa
resistance trait would be too narrow--a suite of coadapted traits would be
better.

Randy Oliver

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