In message <[log in to unmask]>, "Dr. Pedro Rodriguez"
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>I became initiated with the Varroa struggle in Europe. If you study the
>spread of Varroa mites through the Eastern European countries and then
>onto France and the Iberian pennninsula, you will have to agree with me
>that relaxed management conditions are responsible for the magnitude of
>spread of those mites.
 
Surely comb-trapping (as with any other method of varroa control) is
only likely be carried out by non-relaxed bee-keepers. One has to assume
that they will destroy any varroa that they *encourage*, although I
think we have established that by using worker combs, there can be no
questions of *encouraging varroa breeding*.
 
I suppose (from a position of comparative ignorance) that if a malignant
bee-keeper were to deliberately trap the Q on drone comb and allow the
drones to hatch, and then repeat the operation, then additional varroa
would result - but I find this unlikely, to say the least. It would be
his own colonies that would suffer first!
 
--
Alyn W. Ashworth
Lancashire & North-West Bee-Keepers' Association. UK.
(but I don't speak on their bee-half)