Robin said:

> Peter Edwards said: >I now find that with my thymol (only) treatment
> (details on the website),
> > varroa levels are so low that there seems little point in monitoring.<
>
> It is becoming clearer from this list that experience depends on whether u
> keep bees close to other beekeepers and feral colonies or are isolated

Just for the record I have bees in 22 apiaries and there are many other
beekeepers in this area.  Not so sure about feral colonies - my view is that
they were all killed by varroa and we are now seeing the sites inhabited by
escaped swarms - which then die out - are replaced by more escaped swarms
and so on.  Should we define these as feral?

Peter Edwards
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