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I think at a guess the shorter forage radius coupled with queen breeding would logically help with varroa. Shorter radius would usually mean less chance of coming into contact with other coloneys on the same forage? Also breeding from your own stock the bees could have selected genes that are...

Sorry for the late reply got really busy at work. I'll post the link now.https://youtu.be/w-pAQt6pFhM

educated guess, it would be difficult for me to know where wild colonys live I don't spend my time looking for them.

I'm not sure the British seminar I watched was a PhD but I'm almost certain the one Tom Seeley produced was? I'll try find it just now for you very interesting watch.

In nature it's undesirable because it wastes energy that could be put into reproduction, that's why it only seems to shine through in dier times. In kept bees it reduces honey production.

Wales, Scotlan, Ireland mainly where the black bees havnt been diluted? Starting from close to native stock and not treating incures heavy losses but also forces the normally undesirable hygienic trait according to research i watched on the national honey show YouTube channel, I can find the...

What about the wild populations that have survived varroa pretty much on their own, surely we should be trying to select from them over buying in more bees?

Our brass threads are still imperial, even the German ones for shower valves come with imperial threads lol. Yea I'm the same I can guess feet pretty well, and meters if it's not so long I guess in 3m lengths like pipes haha

I'm a plumber/gas fitter we measure mild steel pipe, all thread sizes and threaded female sockets in imperial, all copper/plastic pipe and fittings are measured in metric! I'm 35 and all my life we have measured things in metric and imperial its mad!