> >The alleged effect... is the the alleged mass invasion of waiting phoretic
> varroa
>

Thank you for the succinct clarification!  ; )  For this specific effect,
our limited data do not support.

However, if the question was whether making splits such that there is a
break in the brood cycle (by using either shook bees, queen cells, or
walkaway splits) has the effect of reducing  varroa level (and virus)
levels, then the answer would likely be "yes," due to a number of mechanisms
other than the one which you laboriously described.

Randy Oliver

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