Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post

Anyway, afb must be a hard target when legislation demands destruction of all infested colonies in some countries and 'treatment' in others. We're certainly not going to find resistance in the UK.
I look at that another way

All honeybee diseases are present at low levels somewhere all the time (paraphrasing Bailey)
Resistance also develops when a creature is exposed to sub lethal levels and survives
So let's say in the case of varroa my bees which are exposed to a low level of varroa because I treat them
And Ron Hoskins untreated bees have about the same chances of developing resistance
(Very low because its mostly the virus issues that kill the bees)

I would say our bees have more chance of developing resistance if they are still alive after exposure to the pest (at least the drones)





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