>  Shame!  On average, to my eye, things are worse, not better than 
> in 1999 and much worse than 2002.


Maybe with those Louisiana bees, but not here. We have winter and 
bees stressed by TM in the winter are dead. Once i stopped buying 
bees from the south, and raising queens from the strongest colonies, 
TM became a minor pest.

Could it be that most commercially reared queens come from the south 
where they don't have much of a winter to help with selection. Will 
these colonies with 20% TM infestation die? They surely would here.
Mike 

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