Varroa Mites: No-Treatment is the Best Treatment
...any of the 4,000 species of native bees in North America such as carpenter bees and bumblebees. Most conventional beekeepers buy or breed their own colonies and queens. Backwards beekeepers collect swarms and remove and relocate feral colonies. When it comes to varroa mite these feral colonies have gone through a process of natural selection. When varroa arrived in the Americas, no doubt, many feral colonies died out. But the ones that had natural...