>completely off the wall to me for not being in tune with
>what is going on in the real world.

The correlation between big, heavy producing hives (with lots of bees, 
lots of brood, and lots of drone brood) and varroa problems is 
exceedingly "real world."  What have you seen?  In yards where varroa has 
been a significant problem, after the main brood rearing season when 
varroa numbers are near their peak, which hives have the most varroa?  Is 
it not the hives that have been brooding up the heaviest over the previous 
few months?

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