So, rendering Varroa extinct is being proposed. Understand that I find Varroa to be as much of a problem as anyone else. But I see two problems with an effort to make Varroa extinct. 1) Getting all the mites will take an enormous amount of effort, and short of destroying every colony of Apis Melifera and Apis cerrana honey bees in the world is probably beyond our current technical capability. 2) When we hit 99.9% eradication, someone will put Varroa jacobsoni on an Endagered Species list, thereby making it illegal to do anything that might harm them. No, I am afraid we will have to live with Varroa. If a permanent cure comes, it will probably be in the form of bees that can live with the mites. W. G. Miller Gaithersburg, MD