>An inconvenient truth:.
>
>In a COMMERCIAL setting when the hive is being moved from one pollination to
>another and placed on up to five flows in a season there is not a bee on the
>planet which can survive varroa without chemicals in my opinion!

I am not clear here on a number of things. Is this true or your opinion? The statement is 
riddled with errors and perilous conclusions. Is the cause of the non-survival of the bees the 
varroa or the multiple pollinations and honey flows? 

I am quite certain that beekeepers with Apis ceranae would disagree, as would the many 
beekeepers who successfully keep other species without chemicals. 

However, most of us are not concerned about whether our bees can survive being trucked 
around to six, seven or eight locations per year. Maybe what is needed for that job is some 
sort of disposable bee hive.

pb

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