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I am not. She said they were RWeaver queens.

While BWeaver gets significantly more attention for rearing varroa
resistant stock, I think it's a fallacy to believe that RWeaver (or any
other queen breeder) isn't selecting for some form of varroa resistance, or
local adaptation.

In any event, RWeaver was selected because they rear queens in the south.
Mike Palmer was selected because he rears queens in the north. Any
implication that these queen breeders were selected in the study because
they raise some level of varroa resistant stock (or any other reason) is
your own implication, not addressed directly in the study. At least as
presented in Delaware's EAS (I don't have access to the published paper, so
can't compare the presentation to the article).


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