This contradiction, though statistically small in scale, will at least show if mite resistance trait is inherited (nature) or learned (nurture) in bees.  I am very apprehensive, indeed.   The new queens are Carnis and they will be dropped in the sea of Italians around here.  The mutt between them tends to be feisty, so I wonder being feisty has anything to do with fending off SHB as I learned to love AHB's heightened defensiveness against SHB's.

On a different note, I find placing a quickly consumable size of pollen patty atop washer cloth (fuzzy side up) in the middle--so that the SHB's should walk toward the patty locate above at the center of the cloth seems to be most effective way to trap their hooks on their legs.  Credit goes to a YouTuber.

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