Colene wrote:
> It always surprises me that people are so mystified at how nature works. 
> If we take a step back and look at the honey bee-mite resistance and 
> compare that to bacteria-antibiotic resistance we all should have realized 
> that 100% of the feral hives would not be mite killed.  There would be 
> that small percentage that would have survived.  Those few hives would 
> have continued to produce bees resistant to mites.

Colene, I think I understand where you are coming from here.
I will simply state that both the human (American Chestnut for example) and 
the fossil record  show that whole species do die off at times.In light of 
that  I would say that -on a natural  plane- survival of the honey bee is 
not necessarily a foregone conclusion.


To all who posted about pollen collection-thanks!
I ended up not using some pollen a few days old even though it looked 
good....nutrition and high humidity considerations.

John Horton 

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