Roger White wrote:
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> It was alleged that colonies of bees taken to a tropical area were able to survive without treatments for Varroa due to the climate.  I do not accept this hypothesis at all as we here in Cyprus and in other countries in the Middle East have to treat the hives to control Varroa.  If we don't treat at least once a year we will loose the colonies.

We had a discussion on this finding some time back and one of the
guesses was that we were dealing with Varroa J vrs D. So you can have
good varroa control, as long as it is varroa j. That might be the case
in SA.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Me