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<p>I think Tom Seeley is one of the experts on this, a list of his many publications is here:
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #000000">The wild populations seem to handle the Varroa better, and possibly are adapting. Their natural comb size, frequent swarming, and smaller colony size have all been proposed as reasons
why Varroa isn't decimating their populations like managed colonies. I have no idea about the Colony Collapse Disorder.</div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Pollinator [pollinator-bounces+maraiah.russell=kidszoo.org@lists.sonic.net] on behalf of Peter Bernhardt [bernhap2@slu.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 06, 2016 8:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bee United; Pollinator List-serv; Peter Wyse Jackson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pollinator] Feral Honeybee Health?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This afternoon Dr Peter Wyse Jackson, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, asked a most important question I could not answer. What is known about the health of feral, naturalize Apis mellifera vs. industrial hives or even home hives?
Do these feral colonies suffer from the same level of Colony Collapse Disorder and Varroa? If you have pertinent literature on this topic please forward it to Dr Wyse Jackson.
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div>Peter Bernhardt, Prof. of Biology</div>
<div>Saint Louis University</div>
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