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Release of VSH

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#1 ·
When were VSH bees released to beekeepers?
 
#3 · (Edited)
Thanks.

So, I just came across an article in my local newspaper dated May 8, 1992 about a local beekeeper receiving funding from a program of the State of North Carolina to help "purchase mite-resistant strains of Italian honey bees".

What would those bees have been? I have not read of other mite resistant strains before VSH.

I'm very interested because the beekeeper later moved his operation about 3 miles from where I live and keep hives (I haven't treated since around 2005). He passed away a year or so after moving and his bees were sold. I am assuming swarms of mite resistant bees populated the area and is probably why I am able to be treatment free.
 
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