>
> >When speaking of apiaries, I'm thinking of the whole operation.


Mike, I believe that a yard of bees is generally referred to as an apiary.
 That is what I meant by having a number of hives near enough to have an
effect on varroa levels.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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