Hello Everyone, Karen wrote: >Otherwise, we would be >seeing pockets of resistant feral bees building back up (since they have had >as long or longer exposure to the mites as her bees) and true ferals from >prior to man-made foundation did exist in the US previously .. some of them >had to have been on this more 'natural' cell size and had the genetic base >to survive, if her hypothesis is true. Maybe this could be a factor in the reports noted on bee-l of the return of feral bees in the southeast and west coast states by various people. Dennis