> Less virulent varroa is not self-deception.

Not until someone brings a nuc or a hive into the area, or puts a load of
bees in a temporary holding yard between pollination placements.  Drifting
bees from those hives will bring some virulent varroa in.
 
> Varroa is made more and more virulent through our treatments

How?

> just as microbes causing human disease become more and more virulent

Is resistance to treatment the issue of concern here?  I don't think we want
to confuse that with the separate issue of virulence.

> Making the choice to value the individual 
> hive over the species as a whole is a poor 
> animal husbandry decision.

But is the answer, as "Metro Propolis" said so eloquently back in September,
"trying to re-route course of evolution, two dead hives at a time"?  

> Feral bees are finding ways to overcome varroa in my area

 But how will fare a few miles down the road?

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