Dean,
You have cited several studies that support your contention but you dismiss the overwhelmingly large number of studies that refute it. For example, how do you account for this statement by Ingemar Fries:

> It has been suggested that the cell size influences mite reproduction. However, if there is such an effect, it is small and of little practical value.

Or this one, from Robin F.A. Moritz, Joachim de Miranda, Ingemar Fries, Yves Le Conte, Peter Neumann, Robert J. Paxton:

> Understanding the fundaments of colony losses and improving the status of colony health will require cross-cutting research initiatives including honeybee pathology, chemistry, genetics and apicultural extension. 

Do you understand the nature of collaboration? Replicable results? One or two lone wolves working in isolation may be able to prove something to their own satisfaction, but it is only by verifiable collaborative effort that real progress is made.

PLB

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