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Re: Hives full of honey, but no bees
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:18:10 -0700
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> >We do, however, score colonies for deformed wings on a 1 to 5 scale (5=
> none, 4= one or two, and so on).  We never breed from queens with less than
> a perfect score of 5.


Peter, I am in total agreement with you on this point.  Breeding for
resistance to DWV is at least as important as breeding for resistance to
varroa.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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