Hi Peter

 > Over time, however, mites may be *selected* which
 > do not kill the host.

I am not knocking what you say, but for the selection process to work, 
we need variability in offspring and Varroa are essentially clonal in 
their reproduction, so the only variations that exist are a few chance 
ones due to atomic particle collisions in egg DNA.

But my glass is still half full and I would like to see bee colonies 
kept rather closer to the knife edge, being more heavily challenged by 
varroa than they are with hard chemicals or high percentage knock down 
methods. So that at least the chances are more in our favour.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman or http://www.dave-cushman.net
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