Not commercial,  but its interesting,   I have pointed out a few times I don't believe yet the math works for the mite bomb concept,  But heres the real interesting part as I ponder it,  its not the mites,  it’s the people involved.

Take Dennis for example,  he likes to present a slide that shows pot use and bee deaths,  showing correlation is not causation,  and yet,  here he is presenting exactly that!  Bee drifting,  is not mite emigration, except by correlation so far as the data I have seen. Not saying that some don't mind you,  but using to explain collapse of "okay" hives is a streatch.


And our Science guys?  Jumping on board.  Bees drift as the hive collapse,  must be the reason, sounds logical, and explains what we can't seem to figure out with population dynamics.  If its true,  then that means mites are hugely successful at emigration at death of a hive stage.  Heck,  if we could screw that up then mite bombs would be inert!
 

 
If we can paint bees,  why don’t we paint mites (maybe radioactive?)  show me how many mites in a hive actually came from somewhere else,  show that and we have evidence,


Charles

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