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Extract from Dr. Tom Sandford's Aug issue of Apis.
>This goes back to some beekeeping basics, as stated by Mr. Glen
>Stanley, retired Iowa bee inspector, while giving advice on
>controlling tracheal mites "...why not begin fighting the battle
>where it would do the most good by getting bees cleared of nosema
>first." (see July 1994 APIS). The same issue was also raised more
>recently by Andrew Matheson discussing why beekeepers have so
>quickly adopted vegetable oil patties for tracheal mite control,
>yet do not routinely use fumagillin for nosema. (see December 1995
>APIS).
".....why not go one better and re-queen with Tracheal Mite resistant stock"
Some time ago I took the liberty of posting a lot of information to
the Bee-L on the work done since 1990 here in Ontario to produce stock which
is T-mite resistant. It went down like the proverbial 'lead balloon'. All it
seemed to do was to bring out the critics.
Surely it makes economic sense, a re-queen with tested T-mite
resistant stock costing $11US, and all the problem with T-mites is history.
When reading magazine and publications we get lots of advice on how to
combat T-mites, but never has anyone suggested our way. Why not?
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