In a message dated 09/12/2008 14:35:44 GMT Standard Time,  
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I  askedSeeley if the bees would survive in a normal apiary and his answer 
was  no.



Seeley tried moving isolated colonies from the forest to established  
apiaries and they were as susceptible to Vd as others in the apiary; hence his  views 
about horizontal v vertical transmission of mites.
 
The purpose of the small scale, but hopefully wide-spread, experiment I  
suggested would be to find out more about the bees themselves rather than  their 
commercial management, although lessons learned may pay a commercial  dividend.
 
Chris

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