>    As some of you may remember, this is the bee yard where we collected 10
> queens last June and shipped them to Jim Tew, Gard Otis, and Zachary Huang
> for an experiment they are conducting.  They obtained 10 queens from each
> of three geographic locations, where beekeepers had not treated colonies
> with anything to control varroa.

This is very interesting.  Can you name those other two areas?  Do the bees
you are mentioning have any other unusual characteristics, or are they
apparently just like other local bees?

allen
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