>> wide-ranging transport of bees, even across international boundaries and often to high-density meeting grounds, favors the sharing of parasites and pathogens.  Changing management strategies to reflect these factors, where feasible, can be complimentary to efforts to breed and maintain bee lineages showing natural resistance.

>The management change that is implied here is to stop transporting bees from state to state to pollinate. Is this realistic? ...

I don't know if it's realistic or not....but do you disagree?  In other forums, you've been known to say things like:

"But bottom line here is that the health of bees probably requires ideal forage and a reasonable amount of isolation from the mainstream of beekeeping."

Is this really any different from what Evans suggests?

deknow

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