In message <[log in to unmask]>, "Dr. Pedro Rodriguez" <[log in to unmask]> writes >I became initiated with the Varroa struggle in Europe. If you study the >spread of Varroa mites through the Eastern European countries and then >onto France and the Iberian pennninsula, you will have to agree with me >that relaxed management conditions are responsible for the magnitude of >spread of those mites. Surely comb-trapping (as with any other method of varroa control) is only likely be carried out by non-relaxed bee-keepers. One has to assume that they will destroy any varroa that they *encourage*, although I think we have established that by using worker combs, there can be no questions of *encouraging varroa breeding*. I suppose (from a position of comparative ignorance) that if a malignant bee-keeper were to deliberately trap the Q on drone comb and allow the drones to hatch, and then repeat the operation, then additional varroa would result - but I find this unlikely, to say the least. It would be his own colonies that would suffer first! -- Alyn W. Ashworth Lancashire & North-West Bee-Keepers' Association. UK. (but I don't speak on their bee-half)