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Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Packer Organic Honey and Labeling


Waldemar asks:
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> Anybody know what races of bees the Chinese keep and how they cope with 
> varroa?

The native bee in China is Apis cerana.  They also keep  imported Apis 
mellifera

Re varroa, I quote:    "The native Chinese bees do not have the same 
problems," says Dr. Xiaolong Yang, post doctoral researcher in entomology 
and plant pathology, who raised bees in China. "I do not recall seeing 
deformed wing bees in the Chinese bee. Chinese honey bees have grooming 
behavior which can remove the mites from the bees. They get rid of the 
mites."
Source: 
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2005/05/17/bee_mites_suppress_bee_immunity_open_door_for_viruses_and_bacteria.html

John Howe
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