Bob quoted *Peter Edwards* on viruses, not me. Please use full names! I don't
see how we, as beekeepers, can "control" the viruses vectored by mites! Even
if varroa didn't have viruses it seems fairly obvious that high levels of the
parasites weaken the colony and cause a failure of brood to hatch. If seven
or eight mites are *living* on a pupa, it seems hard to imagine that it would
develop normally. I think that honey behavior has to be "modified" through
breeding so that they rid themselves of the bulk of these critters.

PB