a Pete B snip followed by my comments... 
I am not sure what the implication is here.

>First Pete thanks for a general description of the kind and number of boxes in which you keep bees at your location.  Really my point here is that varroa collapse is often reported to be in the most robust and largest hives. It would seem reasonable to me that a simple change in management technique (ie shape and size of the hive itself) might be something to consider ie 1) just to see if this one alteration in beekeeper HABIT played a role in when a treatment worked or not and 2) if a hive collapsed on not.  

>It seems 'how folks do things' is primarily abut habit or because that is how grandpa did it.

>I perhaps should point out that much of the world (with less capital to toss about than here) keep bees in a minimum number of boxes... there is a likely adjustment going on here between the cost and availability of labor and capital...


Gene in Central Texas...  

  

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