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.