>
> >There was no evidence presented to indicate that the health of the bees
> differed.  It was only an opinion voiced as a possible explanation for why
> the German bees fared better, along with the alternate possibility that
> nutrition from surrounding habitats varied in favor of the German bees.


Christina, with the greatest respect, I don't understand why you again are
making a claim without first reading the supplemental materials to the
papers.  It was not an "opinion"--the researchers' data clearly show high
varroa levels  in the colonies in the UK going into winter.

I'm not saying that the above fact nullifies the researchers' findings, but
rather that none of us should be making statements that are clearly
factually incorrect.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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