> Shame! On average, to my eye, things are worse, not better than > in 1999 and much worse than 2002. Maybe with those Louisiana bees, but not here. We have winter and bees stressed by TM in the winter are dead. Once i stopped buying bees from the south, and raising queens from the strongest colonies, TM became a minor pest. Could it be that most commercially reared queens come from the south where they don't have much of a winter to help with selection. Will these colonies with 20% TM infestation die? They surely would here. Mike *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Access BEE-L directly at: http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L