Bob Harrison wrote:

> Clean comb did the trick on the non varroa tolerant bees and varroa
>tolerant bees solved the varroa problems.
>
>
I would venture that this sentence says more about how to keep bees than
most, and is probably our greatest failing as beekeepers- clean comb.

Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of old comb? I know that Jerry's
studies show lots of stuff ends up in the hive that has the potential to
do harm. Plus there is the stuff that we add.

Natural beekeeping would have as a key feature the use of new comb. In
nature, bees swarm, colonies die and wax moth come in and clean house.
We need to do the same. Even science agrees with that.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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