>
> >My approach would be to use a location large enough where the control and
> treatment hives were separated by at least 1000 feet and better would be a
> half mile.


A half mile apart could add a major location effect.

I'm not sure that you followed my drift on isolation.  the problem with
testing for mite resistance is that the group with more mites will feed
mites to the other group f they are in the same yard, and lessen the
differences between groups.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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