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bees with disease

-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --

do you think that eventually the european bees will develop any resistance
to the mites and the other thing that are afflicting them?  I remember
taking a course in something (I THINK it was microbiology) a while ago
where the professor said that eventually, AIDS would become  a sickness
that probably would not result in swift death, but would just be a mere
annoyance to most people.  The reason it was so devastating in the 80's was
because it was a new disease working on a virgin population (no pun
intended).  Does anybody think that honeybees will eventually be able to
live with these problems as just annoyances, like influenza usually is now,
but when it was first brought to Indian tribes in the new world, it killed
most of them?  I really miss the honeybees that used to be around.  One of
my neighbors had an old dead oak tree in their yard, that was hollow, and
every year thy would have a really cool swarm come out, sit on the overhang
of their shed in the shape of a football, hang around for a few days, and
then they would fly up in a spiral, up really high, and fly away.  In the
early spring, honeybees would be working my heather and snow crocuses, and
now there is nothing coming to them. It was one of the things that really
meant spring to me, because it happened even before the first robin showed
up.  I hope that one day they are able to make a comeback.  LaurenB Z6 nY
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