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The longevity data is interesting. I guess the mite treatments worked better (overall) than one would suspect, at least in the mild climate of Louisiana.
... an initial decreases in swarming rates and colony survival presumably due to varroa...
... a return to pre-varroa levels of swarm captures...
I think we all know a few apiaries where we can place a few swarm traps nearby and be assured of several rounds of "full occupancy" each spring.
My point here is that both the Toledo Bend Reservoir area and the Arnot Forest are not far from backyard beekeepers, so its not clear to me how to isolate the swarms out of feral colonies from the swarms out of managed (perhaps I should say merely "owned", rather than crediting the beekeepers with "management") colonies.
One frequent contributor has pointed out several times that the number of colonies in both USA and Canada increased steadily in spite of varroa, never once admitting that this was not an indicator of wealth and success, but instead, a metric of desperation, as one would need to have bees in 10,000 boxes in fall to be able to fulfill a spring contract for 5 to 7,000 hives for pollination. Its like the 1700s, when one would birth a dozen kids in hope of 2 or 3 surviving to adulthood to care for you in your old age.
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