> Less virulent varroa is not self-deception.
Not until someone brings a nuc or a hive into the area, or puts a load of
bees in a temporary holding yard between pollination placements. Drifting
bees from those hives will bring some virulent varroa in.
> Varroa is made more and more virulent through our treatments
How?
> just as microbes causing human disease become more and more virulent
Is resistance to treatment the issue of concern here? I don't think we want
to confuse that with the separate issue of virulence.
> Making the choice to value the individual
> hive over the species as a whole is a poor
> animal husbandry decision.
But is the answer, as "Metro Propolis" said so eloquently back in September,
"trying to re-route course of evolution, two dead hives at a time"?
> Feral bees are finding ways to overcome varroa in my area
But how will fare a few miles down the road?
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