Yes, many people have done this, many in the beekeeping world don’t acknowledge them but even big names like Randy Olivier are starting varroa resistant operations. What hygienic and behavioral traits that make them resistant the question. The idea is that there are probably a constellation of traits that enabled varroa resistance, this is just another possibly newer observed trait.

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​. Correct. I know BWeaver, Cory Stevens, I recently learned of a darwinian extremist that seems to be on the same page as myself, Solomon Parker, and many others. Like I've been saying for years, chemical life support isn't a solution. There are pests and diseases that we'll never know about, because they've been left in the dust on the roadside of evolution and adaptation, over the bees 50-100M years of evolution prior to us knuckle dragging hairless apes deciding to play God and be the "saviors" of the planet. All the while, believing the lies of the chemical corporations that are raking in profits while destroying the planet and pushing "climate change" as a diversion tactic to take the attention off themselves. The bees have far surpassed most other species on the planet; and will continue to do so without our help. WITH out "help" they'll likely lose all adaptability, gain complete dependency and face extinction due to the other issue that our attention is being diverted from. I find it funny that Sub-Saharan Africa is the hive beetles native habitat. But the first country they were introduces to, in 1996, was the US. The first sign of hive beetles in Egypt wasn't until 2000, at which time they were eradicated and haven't been reported since. They were introduced to Australia in 2001, Canada in 2002 and spread around since. One would think that they would certainly make it into Ecuador, El Salvador and Brazil before making it to Hawaii (a US state/providence).... nope. And this is from Bayer+Bayer's publication about them, where they of course talk about the treatment options they offer. I've been called a conspiracy theorist. But I find it kinda funny how all these invasive "oest" species get spread all around the globe and the US. Like the new Tropilaelaps mites that we hear "are coming". But the last guys to try and import varroa resisten Apis Cerana are spending 25 years in federal prison. And then there's the all too fishy story of how the Varroa reached Australia. Official story is a greedy millionair commercial beekeeper with a large operation took a vacation to New Zealand or something and smuggled 24 queens in on his purpose through the airport. And just like that the few mites that came on the attendant/retinue bees started a masssively viral outbreak that swept through like wild fire, devastated the beekeeping industry, and caused the beekeepers (whose colonies were being burned) to cause an outcry for the government to approve the treatments. Awfully convenient for the insecticide companies. But I'm crazy for having my suspicions of stories that seem very low in probability.

I have been a bee keeping for 5 years now. At the start I followed what most other beekeepers did. Doing treatments, sugar water and Langstroth design. I always felt that bees make it in the wild just fine so why em I doing all this work? Then I found Dr. Leo Sharashkin. It’s been 4 years of full natural bee keeping I don’t have major issues with Varroa mites. Happy bee keeping 🙂

We would still be keeping and breeding domesticated bees depending upon us , look how bad we have screwed up already.. poor bees ... free the bees !!

Hmmm, i could see a tool being developed that allows a gentle uncapping of brood.

Why on earth would bees wanna be humans?

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Do you feel they are co existing with the mites forming a type b immunity if you will ??? Maybe not Intentionally letting them stay around But by regulating them to such low numbers yet not being able to completely eradicate them causing a bond.. ???

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@@trevormcnutt9756 It's something that's interested me for a while. It seems pretty conclusive to me, but results need to be replicated and other studies need to be done on what ELSE 10--HDA does: messing with it could have serious unintended consequences. I was hoping there was more information out there.

@@TheBaconWizard I'm reading keeping bees with a smile by Fedor lazutin. I'm convinced after seeing so many great possibilities, actually studies, and home experiments it is just us .... we are the problem !!!!! On one hand we say bees are Intelligent beyond our understanding and control , on the other hand we treat them like stupid insects that need our help and intervention. You said it the best there will be undiaconsequences for meddling with nature... Another great study that just came out . ( I'm not sure how they did this I didn't see it )they must have taken the bees off off the capped brood . Brood can reach a temperature of 106f before dying mit die at 105f So they heat the brood at 104.1 for 2 hours. 100% effective those numbers are examples not accurate! The problem lies, even if we kill all the mites in one single colony were not killing all the mites throughout the world the mites are here to stay and the bees need to Evolve adapt learn to coexist with them build an immunity and a natural resistance to them. Natural selection is raw nature most won't make itAnd humans keep these ones alive that are supposed to die causing actually problems That nature will take even more time to adjust if she's ever allowed to

No.

There's a good chance somewhere down the line , they have natural resistance but so do other types