Some Good News About Bees

There have a lot of news stories about the bees dying. They became infested with a parasitic 
mite in the 80's. Many Bees died. The solution for these mites has been various chemicals and 
medicines. These chemicals and medicines have produced a resistant mite and a weak bee 
and also contaminated the bees wax and the hives. 

After getting into beekeeping again I read that all the Feral or wild bees were dead or dying 
off because of the mite. While living in Los Angeles and being a house painter I noticed this was 
untrue. The wild bees in Los Angeles are flourishing. I have not purchased bees for four years now 
but catch wild bees here in Los Angeles. This makes a good supply of healthy bees that have not 
been treated with chemicals. Healthy bees. I realized that the mites are in the environment now 
they aren't going away. You need bees that can live with mites -- survive with the mites.