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Re: Evolution, or not
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Dan Harris <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:46:33 -0400
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>All one needed to do was to knock the mites back to close to zero, and the colony would chug on just fine.

Are you suggesting that a 100% mite infestation (100 mites/100bees)....WITHOUT..... 'knocking the mites back to close to zero'..... and those colonies would keep chugging on 'just fine'....are you?
My point was that a heavy mite infestation, thousands of mites reproducing within an untreated colony can, in and of itself bring about collapse. If you add vectored disease it only gets worse. You disagree? 

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