my girls are mostly clustered for the winter [when it breaks 40 they come outside to crap and stretch] but this video is inspiring. VSH bees can smell varroa mites inside a larvae/pupae's cell, break it open and abort the infected bee and destroy the mite! revolutionary because this mite [varroa destructo] has wreaked more havoc than neonicotine pesticides, humans encroaching and all the other bullshit collectively referred to as CCD. i bought a 2nd hive and just waiting to decide if i want to buy the same italian/carnolian bees [wonderful, gentle bees that gave me 18 pound of honey the first year!] or russians, VSH or some other hardier but less friendly bee. also, i got my bees from the south and it might behoove me to get some local ladies who we know can overwinter in our climate.
keep yuz posted!