With each generation, some strains of bees are becoming more resistant.

Most small bee keepers lack the tools to do the artifical insemination, so that is not a claim I'd make.

Most small beekeepers are becoming more dependent upon professional breeders for their stock than used to be the case. Beekeeping used to be a very easy hobby. Now it is becomming much more complicated and difficult. Nevertheless, there are still people eager to have a go at it, judging from the three hundred people who attended our Western NC bee school last weekend.