On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:35 PM, randy oliver wrote:

> >
> > >Are those without a problem doing the 'right thing', or have they just
> > got lucky with the local variant of DWV?
>
>
> Exactly!  Is their success truly due to the proper chants and incense, or
> to unseen varroa/virus/bee dynamics?  Only by further screening can we
> confirm.
>

I still do not fully understand the "new paradigm" .

- doing the right thing ... possible escenario:

- start my apiary collecting "genetics" from different sites around the
country. Multiply them (400 colonies from 10 origins) searching for maximum
mixture possible (grow to 3000).
- Being loose with varroa control, using fumagilin for nosema - but it was
ceranae.
- Treat bees hard multiplying early for recovering winter losses.
- Huge crash of 50% with varroa up to 40% at end of summer.

would the survivers carry the Type B virus?

- keep moving isolated at start and end of season only close to other
colonies during pollination 3 to 5 months period.

would colonies get Type A virus?

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