Trevor writes:
 If they carried them to Africa, one could safely surmise
that they would have carried varroa with the Apis cerana so
Africa should have had varroa occurring in its bee
populations long before now.


Reply:
Nope....don't think so, for they didn't practice LC
foundation/comb in their field management....only the
narrowminded
ones that thought the earth was flat, and also by
coincidence were in the same land that LC came about also,
got the varroa problem going.......but I could be wrong.

Put them back on SC and natural sustainable beekeeping and
the problem disappears for some reason......

Also, funny that only the Europeans were the first to want
to take with them to new lands the honeybees they
had....not that others weren't already there
first....asian, celtic, jews, vikings, etc....

Respectfully submmitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/


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