Dean:
the original can be found (in a pdf) here:
http://web.uniud.it/eurbee/Proceedings/FullPapers/EuroBeeYLCVarroa.pdf

Reply:
Dean, I read thru this and the paper does talk about unworked hives with combs being more then 8 years old and surviving varroa and how they rationalize this. It is an ongoing following of the bees still in works. It does talk about surviving ferals/swarms also, and hygenic behaviour being looked at, etc. The part on the honey production being less, to me means that field management needs to be changed back to similar of what Dr Farrar used to do and promote back in the 1960s or earlier too, rather then today's methods to get around this problem more.

Dee A. Lusby





      

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