This problem is solvable, but.........
I thought Tom Seeley had already solved it with his observations of bees in trees in his local forest and conclusions regarding horizontal vs vertical mite transmission. In a nutshell, the problem isn't the bees or the mites but the beekeepers!
Chris
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