Hi Peter,
 
Needless to say you hate Langstroth frames. But what alternative do you
propose?
Getting back to skeps?... Keeping hives in hollow trunks? 
 
By the way, what makes you think a frame can be considered nazi? 
 
Regards.
 
Martin Braunstein
Malka Cabania Apicola
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> From: Peter Amschel <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: natural TM resistance
> Date: sábado 20 de diciembre de 1997 17:05
> 
> The bees can't get rid of the mites because the bees are all
> artificially separated off from one another in millions of Langstroth
> frames. The space between the frames does not allow enough room for
> the bees to work together and interact shoulder to shoulder en masse
> throughout the hive. The bees can't even properly ball up for winter
> because they are prevented from doing so by the faux spaces in
> these nazi Langstroth frames. If the bees are in non-Langstroth
> hives, they can begin to dominate the mites as they can  easily pick
> these mites off one another. Bees are one organism, world wide, like
> a gigantic aspen grove and we have to liberate them from these
> Langstroth prisons. Just as fleas would proliferate on monkeys if the
> monkeys were artificially separated from one another so that when
> they want to visit and interact with one another they  have to burrow
> through an artificial wall or go all the way down and around one or
> more maze-like artificial walls the mites are getting the upper hand
> (prendre le dessus).