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Amateur beekeeper makes varroa breakthrough

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Okay, I know I've already posted this in the forum but I think it's a really intersting piece of news.

Here's the link: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/25/honeybees-virus-superbee-saviour-swindon

I expect that as the Amateur beekeeper came from Swindon that has evaded the reporters of The Scotsman who've recently reported on Fife BA locating hives on University of St.Andrews grounds.

This guy in Swindon has spent 18 years trying to breed "cleaner" bees and although he's not alone in this, he is an amateur with no funding so I think he deserves a great deal of praise for his efforts.

I'm fairly new to beekeeping but what I can't understand is the high number of beekeepers I've met who leave their mongrel breeding to chance.

The breeding , morphometry and queen rearing courses are a way to address this problem if sufficient beekeepers show interest.

Perhaps being able to use lab equipment on a pay by use basis for instrumental insemination could help this? I don't live on Colonsay or any other remote island so I'd be taking a risk with just about every other Scottish beekeeper when it comes to Queen mating flights.
Neil

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