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 In> From <sci.agriculture.beekeeping>
 
 >Go see our web site - contains part of the English translation of the
 >German book, Varroa Resistance by Alois Wallner.  Mr. Wallner, a
 >commercial beekeeper has been breeding toward Varroa resistance since
 >1989 and now has some breeder colonies that have survived untreated for
 >five full years.
 --
 >Jack & Susan Griffes
 >Country Jack's Honeybee Farm
 >Ottawa Lake, MI 49267
 >USA
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 >Web page  http://www2.netcom.com/~griffes
 
 In> Would anyone agree that this (surviving untreated) is not the
 In> criterion for success. Surely we would want to monitor the mite
 In> population. How could this be estimated without using a chemical
 In> knockdown and stopping the trial ?
 In> --
 In> Dave Black
 In> <http://www.guildford.ac.uk/beehive>,
 In> Guildford, GU1 4RN.  UK.
 
Would using two identically furnished brood boxes set up as two hives in
the same site, both containing one complete frame of drone comb, one
containing 'commercial' Italians and the other "survivors" qualify as a
true test structure? (Multiplied by how ever many tests would be needed to
prove certainty.) I see this setup with the beekeeper using and recording
results from the '100 brood cell occurance rate' test done regularly every
30 or so days for a year to record successive 'generations'.
 
Comments?
 
Carl Powell
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Tidewater, Va.
 
 
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