Yoon said;
  Not to beat the dead horse again, nevertheless, I do admire those on this
list who take risks regardless of the outcome.

So do I but fail to understand why many repeat methods which were proven as
uneffective by others years ago.

example:
The *leave alone* method and breed from survivors for varroa control has
been around since 1987 in the U.S..

 One beekeeper lost all two thousand of his colonies and went bankrupt in
the early nineties.

The USDA in Baton Rouge  said that selecting queens from the hives with the
lowest varroa counts did not produce varroa tolerant bees after several
years of trying as the reasons for a hives low or high varroa count can be
from many different reasons totally unrelated to the bees.

yet:

Beekeepers still push *leave alone and breed from survivors* even on the
BEE-L list.

Yoon said;
To be curious and to experiment, I believe, is just as human as to be secure
and safe.

I put a small number of hives aside to experiment with but will never
experiment with all my hives (which many beekeepers do!).

Bob

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