Thought to Ponder for Rip, Bob, Allen and others here:

Back in the early 1990s when I was video camera crazy
filming in the broodnest I disected hives dead from AFB
wanting to learn more. It was also the time Varroa was
getting a good foothold in our area too.

Bob......Allen has said FWIW that you put varroa infested
I think brood combs into your hives to see if they are
resistant to them. And the bees are from Australia.

So question: I filmed me pulling out foul brood mummies
from our hives, with varroa attached to them. Sorta like
mummies attached to mummies. Have you pulled out any of the
AFB mummies you talk about to see in the varroa infested
combs you are putting in your hives to see about varroa
resistance,if the varroa mmites have now gone into AFB
cells and died with the mummies there? Not that there would
be a correlation......but it could happen.

Can you watch for this and then report back what you find
and see?

Sincerely,

Dee A. Lusby
Small cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrganicBeekeepers/




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