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I am starting to think that the Economist has a beekeeper on their staff. Anyway, here's an interesting article about varroa, propolis, and the (alleged) problems caused by breeding for bees that don't gum up the hive with the stuff.
 

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There are those stories, how much propolis 8to bees and to humans.

As the author says, varroa has been in Europe about 50 years. ..

. But propolis has not killed varroa on the way from Siberia . In Siberia varroa has beeb about 100 years. Such dreaming....

Mites must be propolis resistant.
 
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