>> Why people insist that AHB are tolerant to varroa? This is not what I am seeing at north of 

Here in Los Angeles many newbies keep AHB’s and boast about  their hardiness and productivity. Unfortunately none of them do any kind of mite counting so these kinds of claims are hard to substantiate or quantify. 
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