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> >My understanding, and I've heard Tom
> present this many times, is that the survivability of Arnot bees is
> attributable to sparse colony distribution.
Merry Christmas Aaron -- thanks for chiming in!
I've studied Tom's data carefully, and plugged it into my mite model.
What comes out as the predominant factors that allow survival are cavity
size (and resultant small broodnests and swarming), and low mite
immigration due to low colony density. Genetics may play a part, but those
bees are not Africanized.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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