Hi Bill & All,

>My experience was you can do it for a while (even doing everything
>right) and get away with it, but in the long run, it is better to
>purchase queens and break the cycle. You may think you are breeding a
>better bee, but it does not always  work out that way. The books are right.
>


I think that Marla Spivak is correct when she said it was time for us to
stop using mitecides and to start breeding a resistant honey bee. If we
continue to always buy replacement queens we can not break a cycle of losing
colonies to mites without chemicals. What cycle are you speaking of Bill?

. . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ Caucasian Bee Keeper, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/

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