Several years ago we hired a new state apiary inspector here in Texas.  Not long after he arrived there was some kind of US bee inspector trip to South Africa. He reported to me that due to lack of treatment of bees in that region for varroa that the virus(s) we commonly associate with bees that the virus(s) hand never developed in that regions.

I have come to wonder if the long list of virus is not more of a problem than the varroa itself when it comes to a hives survival???  I guess this question is somewhat analogous to rats or fleas and the spread of the bubonic plague. < ie a high correlation but not the cause.

Your thoughts?

Gene in Central Texas but not for long...

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