>By the way, are you aware of any recent news regarding the reports of
>fluvalinate resistant varroa in northern Italy? I have 3 brief papers from '93
>in Italian which I hope to have translated enough to assess, but the abstract
>says "the results suggest that varroa had become resistant to fluvalinate".
>(I see in one of the papers (Marletto, F. 1993. Recrudescence of varroa
>disease.
>Apicolt. mod. 84 3 - 6.) a photo of the 3 section drone frame you describe.
>
>
>Kerry Clark, Apiculture Specialist
>B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
>1201 103 Ave
>Dawson Creek B.C.
>        V1G 4J2  CANADA          Tel (604) 784-2225     fax (604) 784-2299
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   Kerry,
 
   My son is rather fluent in Italian, having lived there for 10 years.  If
you send me a copy of those three papers (short, I hope), I can probably
get the essence of their content quite quickly and get back to you.  (He
bought a house in Santa Barbara but maintains his lease on a fortress back
there.)
 
Adrian
 
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