>
> >I don't like to think that my own swarms are creating a reservoir for
> local mites but I can't avoid the logic.
>

Neither can I.  Swarms of domestic stocks issuing from poorly-managed hives
turn into mite-producing factories that will soon collapse.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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