Re:
"If you are going to reduce the mite pressures
by phoretic mites drifting into other colonies during
the critical period of late summer, you need to
adopt a bee which does not allow this phenonomen
to occur, and this, IMO, would necessitate the
adoption of breeds which do not have a brood
shutdown.
Best Wishes
Joe Waggle"
>Boy is this contrary to my experiance.
It's the long late summer brood break in combination with multiple 100 + degree days in succession that knocks the heck out of the mite population for me.
Last thing I want is a bee that doesn't know when to shut down.
Don Semple
Overland Park, KS
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