Max Watkins wrote:

>I'm not trying to set myself up as an expert and of course, I may be
>entirely wrong. I do make mistakes - let's see now, I remember I made one
>back in 1978....

   I am glad to see some humor inserted into this discussion about mite
resistance.  It reminds me of one of my favorite quotations:

   "The only mistake I ever made was when I thought I had made a mistake!"

                                                        Adrian

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*    "Aesthetic judgments do not arbitrate scientific discourse....
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