From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:01:53 +0100
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: cell size measurement

At 07.37 +1000 02-01-01, T & M Weatherhead wrote:

>I think it is a long bow to say that all the ills of the beekeeping industry
>are down to the enlarged cell. What about genetic selection? Bees were
>dosed with antibiotics so there was no way of telling what was being
>selected for. It certainly wasn't for disease resistance. Why couldn't the
>resistance been lost and is now only being regained through work by people
>such as Dr. Marla Spivak and certain beekeepers who are taking the time to
>become drug free and select?

Yes Trevor, I think those two things you mention here have brought us where
we are, enlarged cells for the brood and selection with the help of drugs,
selecting many times what you didn't know, thus many times losing
resistance of different kinds. So by returning to more natural ways and
helping the bees to select back to fight parasites and diseases is the path
we have to follow.

Erik