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If AHB had been shown to have some unique mechanism of resistance to
varroa not found any other place it might be worth starting to consider
somehow "uncoupling" the good from the bad. But as far as I know there
is nothing special there, and a lot of mythology. They are amazingly
successful and have vigorous colonies with a lot of healthy brood.
Fascinating and eye opening stuff. It pretty much stops there in terms
of beekeeping use.
Another oddity- the view in Brazil is that with AHB a new kind of
thriving beekeeping became possible. The production figures back up
that concept. And yet take most of the other Latin American countries
that had growing and successful beekeeping enterprises and very few are
of those are left. There is still beekeeping but it tends to be
smaller operations gleaning whatever honey they can get. Most
countries have gone from being net exporters of honey to being
importers. Mexico appears to have fared a bit better, but I think they
would still welcome the old days with European bees.
In the real world of larger scale beekeeping, it is just a nightmare to
manage their high defensive and runny behavior, emphasis on brood
production, propensity to abscond. They may have some use in smaller
operations in areas where European bees have a hard time, isolated
backyard beekeeping or in areas where they are slightly Europeanized or
less defensive. That may explain some of the Brazilian success story,
but it pretty much stops there.
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