Because the Swarm itself becomes an uncontrolled beehive, not being treated or tested for mites. So As the feral colony grows so does the mite population in it and so do the amount of mite infected bees flying in/around commercial/backyard hives drifting to colonies as they get lost etc. That feral hive then becomes the mite bomb, not the mother colony that is on the brood break and likely gets tended by a beekeeper.

It’s your understanding that is lacking. He’s saying the swarm is now going to be living in the wild on its own with nothing to treat it for mites. The foragers from that (now wild) colony is going to spread those mites.

It seems Naive to think that nature can’t solve the varroa mite problem but somehow man can. Treating Varroa with chemicals is not a good long-term solution.

I guess I missed the dig at Trump, where is it?

Exactly. Don’t need to hear the comments from a California liberal about our president. I watched this for bee knowledge, not political commentary.

Previous president*

Randy Oliver has forgotten more about bees than most beekeepers will ever learn. I’m surprised that some people watched the video and their takeaway was “he dissed the former president”. Wow!

We simply stated that we did not watch him for his political views. If he didn’t want us to comment on his political comment then It should not have been brought up during a video on bees. Stick to what you know and what people come on here to watch you for.

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Cumberland, Randy is fighting Cancer. So that said, I’m sure your opinion of this knowledgeable man should change.

@@CastleHives unfortunately he is, I wish him well. However was only made public a few days ago. I wrote my comment two months ago at which time nobody knew. I can only hope my comment made him realize he was unwell and lead him to go see the Dr. Bewildering you can back two month later trying to shame me, like hindsight wasn't twenty twenty.

Sorry you think that. Have a look at his website scientificbeekeeping.com/ to understand why he's an important and influential beekeeper.

Would you say that Stephen Hawking was a bad speaker because he used a computer to simulate his voice? You might consider, many could also judge you on your lack of punctuation. There is not a single question mark, comma or period to separate your thoughts. How are we supposed to know what you are saying? It's because we have the patience to overlook that, in order to hear your contribution.