>
> >My observation of some no-treat beekeepers is that they do just what you
> describe. By continual splitting and selling off the splits as nucs you can
> control Varroa and sell the nucs as non-treated colonies.


My first question to those who tell me that they have been successfully
keeping bees without varroa treatments is to what degree they have been
expanding their operation.  Morris Ostrofsky has been making this point for
years--frequent splitting can keep you ahead of varroa.


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

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