On February 5th, we read on BEE-L:

>Tom Seeley gave two very interesting presentations, one on how scout bees
hunt for new homes (House Hunting by Scout Bees), and one on the possible
return of feral bees, either because bees are learning to better tolerate
mites, or mites are becoming less nefarious to bees.  Unfortunately his
data samples are limited, and the observations have not spanned many
years, but he has hopes that honey bees are becoming better able to
coexist in a mite infested environment.

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    On the first of the above two points, one can access the following web site:

http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/abjjan1992.htm

Or, of course, dig out the January issue of the 1992 American Bee
Journal.  How a swarm moves through the air has a simple explanation.

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    On the second of the above two points (better bees or milder
mites?), one can read my letter in the September 1999 issue of the
American Bee Journal ("Colony survival: A better bee or a milder
mite?)  Here in the Santa Barbara region we have had a resident
population of feral bee colonies for the past several years.  Those
colonies have mites but persist nevertheless.

    I am glad to see that others have come to the same conclusions
that we formed years ago.

                                                Adrian


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