Yoon said;
Nevertheless, your illustrations of past mite devastation struck me in that
they all occurred in the early 1990's (1993), about a decade ago, a
significant factor that seems to indicate that it might take at least a
decade for our bees to fight mites and emerge as victor.  Do you have any
recent anecdotes of such magnitude?

In California (2003) my partner  bought deadouts from a commercial beekeeper
which lost 600 of 1200 hives to varroa and did not want to pay shipping back
to his home state on deadouts as he was headed to Texas before returning to
his home state.

Varroa infestation was the problem.


In late winter of 2001 a Missouri beekeeper shipped two semi loads to
California ( removed in very cold weather so not looked at ) and all but
around 20 hives were dead on arrival because of varroa infestation.

if so, I stand corrected.

Varroa & tracheal mites are alive and well in the U.S.

Bob

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