"Eggs Zachtly" wrote in message
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Ann said:

enigma expounded:

oddly, that's not true. there are very few 'wild' hives of
honeybees.

Thankfully they seem to be on a bit of a comeback. There have been
feral hives located that show resistance to varroa. There may be hope
- that is if humans will leave them alone and let them adapt!

My money's on some lab, somewhere, creating a varroa-proof bee. You know
what they say about history and it's repeats.


My money is on nature. My armchair quarterbacking is that since so
many commercial beekeepers are buying queens that there is likely
only a handful of suppliers who are breeding and boxing up queens, and
a few of them have a problem - they got themselves a genetic
defect or some such that has infested their production hives and nobody
is willing to publically admit it because they don't want their business
to collapse.

Sooner or later once enough data is gathered, they will trace it down
to a cause, by then my guess is the queen suppliers will have a fix applied
and you will see a bunch of stonewalling and denials from the industry,
and it will be back to business as usual.

Ted