>I am not sorry for you posting this reference. Also the
>study has NOT been discredited, though some may want you to
>feel this way. More reports will be coming I and others
>have been told that are even better then this one.

Yes, well I made up my own mind about the quality of the work. But even if
Johnsen hadn't skewed the data by leaving out the rest of the results, his
results weren't so great now, were they?

* Large cell group: An alcohol wash in Autumn during broodless period
revealed 29% mites per 100 bees, the range was 3-64%.

* Small cell group: An alcohol wash in Autumn during broodless period
revealed 14% mites per 100 bees, the range was 3-26%.

14% mites in Autumn is probably high enough to kill the hives over winter.
They have real winter in Norway, not Arizona winter.

I. G.

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