From <sci.agriculture.beekeeping>
>Go see our web site - contains part of the English translation of the
>German book, Varroa Resistance by Alois Wallner. Mr. Wallner, a
>commercial beekeeper has been breeding toward Varroa resistance since
>1989 and now has some breeder colonies that have survived untreated for
>five full years.
--
>Jack & Susan Griffes
>Country Jack's Honeybee Farm
>Ottawa Lake, MI 49267
>USA
>e-mail [log in to unmask]
>Web page http://www2.netcom.com/~griffes
Would anyone agree that this (surviving untreated) is not the criterion
for success. Surely we would want to monitor the mite population. How
could this be estimated without using a chemical knockdown and stopping
the trial ?
--
Dave Black
<http://www.guildford.ac.uk/beehive>,
Guildford, GU1 4RN. UK.