> On 18 Dec 2019, at 2:25 PM, Richard Cryberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I sure wish mite resistance was so simple Africanized bees were bullet proof. In that case it would be fairly easy to move the resistance into our domestics and leave the bad characters behind. But I think the evidence says Africanized bees that survive mites do it for many of the same reasons the Arnot forest ferals survive. Or am I wrong on that?
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Hi Dick & All
My understanding of AHB ‘resistance to varroa’ is worker development timing reduced by one day thus allowing only one daughter released into the colony as compared to two for EHB. With the resulting slower increase in varroa population, TF is possibly more successful than in the north as you pointed out.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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