Adrian Wenner wrote:
> In an experiment on Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Santa Barbara, we
found that all colonies survived the introduction of varroa a good two years
with no treatment. In the third year, colony demise occurred quite rapidly
on the island. A few of the monitored colonies survived that year, but by
the beginning of the fourth year all monitored colonies had perished. 

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