Hi everybody, news from Apimondia - Roma, may, 1996. Guess of dead bee colonies on varroa in winter 95/96: World - about 25% (from 50 mil. colonies 13 mil. dead), Austria - about 70%, German - about 45 - 50%, local even 80%, Slovakia - about 35 - 40% and Czech republic - about 20%. (passed by Bee Res. Inst. at Doll near Prague, 252 66 Libcice n. Vl., CZ) Best regards +----------------------------------------------------------+ |Miroslav Matysek | [log in to unmask] | |Technical University in Brno | |Faculty of Technology in Zlin | |Department of automatic control | |762 72 Zlin, Czech republic tel., fax: +42 67 721 1521| +----------------------------------------------------------+