Fascinating lecture at NHS

[Beefriendly]

. Clearly, drone cells allow more mature mites to emerge than worker cells.

In their natural host (A.cerana) varroa can only reproduce in drone cells. It's inbuilt into them to selectively prefer drone cells. Those choosing worker cells die, as does the larvae as it apoptoses.
An extreme but effective way of living with a parasite.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

It normally takes the NHS a few weeks to upload the lectures..... I know Tom Seeley's from last year took an age!

Mentioning Tom Seeley in the same post as Derek Mitchell will give him ideas above his station - Tom Seeley, that is!

CVB

p.s. How's the book coming along Derek?

 

[Finman]

In their natural host (A.cerana) varroa can only reproduce in drone cells. It's inbuilt into them to selectively prefer drone cells. Those choosing worker cells die, as does the larvae as it apoptoses.
An extreme but effective way of living with a parasite.

I wonder, why cerana does not kill varroa totally. What idea it is rear them in drones.

 

[user 6228]

Anyone uploaded it yet?
Has anyone else done a search for "Derek Mitchel l" on YouTube, guessing that's not him!

Maybe Derek might want to publish his power point / bullet notes?

I currently dont have anything on you tube though I'm available for talks to BKAs

Putting anything up on the net means you have to check everything for possible copyright infringement. This talk took almost the same time to check and replace the photographs for public domain ones as it took to write in the first place.

Derek

 

[masterBK]

I do quite a few talks on the beekeeping lecture circuit and find it best to take and use my own photos. For each presentation I first create a "storyboard" as this allows me to work out a list of the extra photos/videoclips needed and carry a fairly versatile compact camera when I go beekeeping.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I do quite a few talks on the beekeeping lecture circuit and find it best to take and use my own photos. For each presentation I first create a "storyboard" as this allows me to work out a list of the extra photos/videoclips needed and carry a fairly versatile compact camera when I go beekeeping.

Very good idea MBK, but I doubt even Derek M's ability to use his own pre war photographs of the manufacture of the de Havilland mosquito for his talk!