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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2beefarm" data-source="post: 14000" data-attributes="member: 946">That's something I've been hearing from a few AU beekeepers too — queen supersedure rates seem to be up noticeably since varroa arrived. Hard to tell how much is the mites themselves vs the treatment regime vs genetics narrowing, but the observation is consistent.Do you find the replacement queens are holding up any better, or is it the same pattern repeating? I've been wondering if the queens being raised now are from colonies that have already been through multiple treatment cycles, and whether that's selecting for something different than pre-varroa genetics.</blockquote>

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