Mike S snip followed by my comment..
All rebuttals, discussions, advice is sincerely welcome.
> 1) It appears to me that bees that propolis a lot also have less problem with the small hive beetles. 2) We (the lab and I) have been chasing a local source of africanized bees(at this point without luck) and testing hives with poor disposition which primarily seem to come back as an Italian Caucasian cross.
> And a question back to ya.... Isn't the caucasian a good portion of what is thought to be 'the Russian bee'?
Gene in Central Texas..
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