My name is Gary, a retired medical researcher and long-time beekeeper. I've performed an important piece of research into how to look after honey bee colonies without having to use damaging chemicals called varroacides. Since varroa arrived UK in 1992, most honey bee colonies have been treated with these mite-killing pesticides several times a year. These chemicals can get into honey, bees wax and other hive products. They can also harm the bees themselves, causing both worker and queen bee losses. The research I have performed is called a systematic review and has already been published as a peer-review journal article . It shows that any beekeeper can breed bees that are varroa-resistant within as little as 1-3 years, thus being able to stop using varroacides forever. This research has received wide interest, but my problem is that the scientific journal needs to be paid £3,000 to make this article open access, where any beekeeper anywhere in the world can read the full article online. Without open access the article can only be read as a brief summary by most people. Please give a donation, however small, to enable this research to be more widely seen. Please also pass this request on to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you