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Re: US Feral Bees
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Russ Litsinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:56:24 -0500
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>That seems to me to be an incredibly narrow definition. It would include a very large number of hobby "let alone" colonys as well as popular nesting sites around established yards. 

A bit tangential to the topic de jour, but this reminds me of something Dr. Kefuss has routinely pointed out when looking at the BIP data (RIP) - there are managed colonies that are surviving more than a year or two without any meaningful intervention for varroa - as he quips, 'There's gold in them hills...'

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