Fleabane vs Varroa ?

[Goodwood]

Not sure how these guys use the extract but interesting none the less

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n6ysb

 

[For want of a better word]

http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/erigeron-karvinskianus/classid.2751/

Looked up fleabane... and the Meixican karvin? variety seems to be doing well on the walls near my home apiary!

Watch this video and look out for the very basic misinformation... bountifully given by Miss Information !

Yeghes da


My bees forage over much more than one mile away and do not hibernate!

 

[Plenty of honey]

How interesting. i have a client with tons of this stuff in his garden, it is so prolific it was a problem. I think its what we would call "Mexican Daisy" has any body else got it?

Its not difficult to control but it just grows so well. My client has a garden on slopes and tiers, which helped this plant grow well. it would certainly survive well in uk climate. I've seen it frosted really hard and install survives.
will order some seeds and try this. who knows!! http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/search?q=Erigeron+karvinskianus

We have to try everything!!

 

[Apiarisnt]

Different fleabane.

The Cretans are using Dittrichia Viscosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dittrichia_viscosa

They have even patented the use of the extract for varroa control https://www.google.com/patents/WO2009153607A1?cl=en

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Good to know people are working on new products in the fight against varroa

 

[Erichalfbee]

Good to know people are working on new products in the fight against varroa

It's worth looking everywhere.
Thyme, Hops? Where next?

 

[For want of a better word]

It's worth looking everywhere.
Thyme, Hops? Where next?

American Bee Journal Vol 157 No1................?

Yeghes da