Bill Wrote

>The conclusion I came to from the presentation is that small cell has little to do with Varroa management. The 
feral colonies he got had cell sizes all over the map. Those were the survivors. So cell size had nothing to do 
with survival. He also had colony losses so even selected among the survivors.

What Jennifer failed to mention is that Bill's bees were of Russian stock. It is also likely that the "survivor bees" also are Russian. For some reason beyond my comprehension University researchers are unwilling to give credit where it is due. Without the influence of the Russian stock you could wait a long time and loose more than you could afford  or all of your bees before achieving varroa and disease resistance. This is especially true if you are going it alone.

Carl Webb



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