>
> >once you have introduced this to those hives, and they are now hopefully
> resistant to Iapv, can you use the hives in any other testing?  since they
> are now "different" than normal hives would your results of any testing on
> these hive be represenative of bees in others bees?


Unless the RNAi response is encouraged by continued virus infection, it
appears that the bees will not maintain it (I don't have data to support).
 Colonies get virus infections, and then clear them, sometimes on a weekly
basis.  The RNAi (RISC) response is ramped up for each different virus
infection, then ramped down.

I have no reason to suspect that a Remebee treatment would be different.
 That is why we treat monthly with Remebee--otherwise, we'd treat just
once.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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