--- Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

My comments
> on this report is in the
> archives!

Your entitled to your opinion.  But I  produce this
quote to the 'list members' for reading.  Not
interested weather it meets your approval.  I'm sure
no mater what evidence to the contrary is produced you
will have, had have or had, gonna have, already had an
opinion on it.  Anyhow this is concurrent data from
another study,  I’m not defending the study, I just
find this quote interesting that they are finding
varroa tolerance in the ferals before the time you say
that they were saved by the breeding of smr bees etc.


QUOTE:
“Concurrent data obtained from a study of feral
colonies in Arizona also show a change toward
varroa-tolerance.”

> got in trouble years ago on BEE-L talking about this
> report.

Politics? In the American beekeeping industrial
complex?  oh my.

 Most likely the
> hives died from bad
> beekeeping practice over the Illinois winter. 97-98
> were tough years because of varroa.

concur completely!  You can them conclude, that feral
bees are more fit and more hardy able to stand up to
bad beekeeping practices and tough varroa years.  I
agree!

> I agree completely with the Purvis Brothers quote!
> and I concur completely!

We all concur then!!!  The Purvis Bros say
"ferals may be surviving due to ‘natural resistance’"

So the ferals are surviving due to 'natural
resistance' an NOT due to the 'saviors of scientific
breeding'!

We have to quit agreeing like this, might lead to
boring conversations.
Best Wishes,

Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA
Small Cell Beekeeping
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries'
http://www.biologicalbeekeeping.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/




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