> Have you any comments on that, or pointers to where people can learn
 > more details? 

   FWIW, there is a newly organized Russian Honeybee Breeders Assoc. 
<http://www.russianbreeder.org>

   One thing that caught my eye on their web site is that the members of the 
association all agree not to use any kind of treatments for mites (both 
Tracheal and Varroa). That mindset of "only the strong survive" seems 
guaranteed to keep that particular trait in their lines of bees.

-- 
The US is world leader in prison population, whether measured in percentage of 
population or total number of prisoners. We have more people in jail than 
China, which has 4 times the population of the US. And we dare call ourselves 
the "land of the free?"

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned 
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html