It always surprises me that people are so mystified at how nature works.  If 
we take a step back and look at the honey bee-mite resistance and compare 
that to bacteria-antibiotic resistance we all should have realized that 100% 
of the feral hives would not be mite killed.  There would be that small 
percentage that would have survived.  Those few hives would have continued 
to produce bees resistant to mites.  I also don't see why we would try to 
correlate the survival of the feral with the survival seen in commercial 
hives.  Yes we are breeding for resistance, but we are still treating hives 
with everything under the sun for mites, foulbrood, nosema and on and on and 
on.  As Jeff Goldbloom's character said in Jurassic Park-Nature finds a way. 
It just takes time.  In fact in time, I fully expect there will be an 
adapted AHB living in the cold cold north sometime down the road-unless we 
totally destroy the planet first.

Coleene

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