Hi Bob & All,

> To sum things up other than chemicals there has been no PROVEN
alternative!
>

You know the chemicals have not yet been proven either, they only work for a
short TIME. There are beekeeper with the pudding of prove in their success
but just because they are not researchers or scientist their success is
negated, what a shame.

Even though there are beekeepers using alternatives just why have the
alternatives not been proven and/or disproved? If a beekeeper can keep
around 800 colonies alive with no treatments what else is there to prove? If
it is the race of bee and not the non treatment then why not use the race
like is being attempted with other races? What is so wrong with the success
of keeping bees with no treatments? When are the researchers going to do the
needed research to disprove or prove these no treatment methods? The
industry is running out of TIME!!

> They are marked for spring requeening .
> Smoke does not mellow those gals and seems to only make the situation
worse.
> Lift the lid and they fly right at your face. Work the hive next to theirs
> and they react. Maybe they are of AHb decent?
>

Or maybe they are simply an aggressive hive which some are trying to pass
off as AHB. Are these bees in AHB territory?
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c(((([
Keith Malone