Re:

"If you are going to reduce the mite pressures 
by phoretic mites drifting into other colonies during
the critical period of late summer, you need to 
adopt a bee which does not allow this phenonomen
to occur, and this, IMO, would necessitate the 
adoption of breeds which do not have a brood 
shutdown.

Best Wishes
Joe Waggle" 

>Boy is this contrary to my experiance.

It's the long late summer brood break in combination with multiple 100 + degree days in succession that knocks the heck out of the mite population for me. 

Last thing I want is a bee that doesn't know when to shut down.

Don Semple
Overland Park, KS 

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