>
> >But you see Evans has more or less dropped it as a hot topic.


Only temporarily, as *he* was hijacked by CCD.  He recently told me that he
is eager to return to bacteria.

>It is my sense that some folks buying these breeders don't understand this,
and think they are starting with "resistant VSH genes

I will soon be writing a series on the biology behind bee breeding, which
may help...

Randy Oliver

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