Randy>Now what I want to do is to intentionally bottleneck that genetic pool to
ELIMINATE those traits that allow for successful varroa reproduction.  If I
can do so without eliminating desirable traits (so far there is no evidence
of that occurring), I hope to end up with a somewhat bottlenecked
population that is free of the nonadaptive traits that promote varroa.


Can a bottleneck of this type be accomplished without allowing a lot of bee colonies to die or otherwise be eliminated from the breeding stock? 


Bill Hesbach
Northeast USA 

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