--- allen dick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

...From what we see in many
> areas, we can deduce
> that varroa has wiped out all the ferals, but we do
> not actually know, and
> America is huge and diverse.

2 years ago, a friend of mine said.  "What happended
to all the honeybees?  I never see a honeybee in my
yard, I hear their all dead from a mite or something".

One year later, I removed 2 very large mature feral
colonies from his property.  One was in a huge white
oak right on his front yard that fell, and another in
a tree out back.  I find that many ferals can be found
right under our noses.

Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA
Small Cell Beekeeping
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries'
http://www.biologicalbeekeeping.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/




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