> Shame! On average, to my eye, things are worse, not better than
> in 1999 and much worse than 2002.
Maybe with those Louisiana bees, but not here. We have winter and
bees stressed by TM in the winter are dead. Once i stopped buying
bees from the south, and raising queens from the strongest colonies,
TM became a minor pest.
Could it be that most commercially reared queens come from the south
where they don't have much of a winter to help with selection. Will
these colonies with 20% TM infestation die? They surely would here.
Mike
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