Interesting piece about a project to help bees develop a resistance to the vorroa mite. (You can see a mite on the right hand side of this picture.) This is the mite that has been millions of bees.In Africa wild bees have quickly developed resistance to the vorroa mite.
The project managers argue that by treating bees with vorroa allowed the weaker strains of bee have been perpetuated - and thus the vorroa mite continues. See here for more details:
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