sahtlinurk
House Bee
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- uk, Abingdon
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- 14x12
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- 12
i attended a beekeeping meeting at Wantage and there was a man talking about his bees. And he is going down to the route of having only these hygienic bees who groom themselves more often and clean the cells from varrao and varrao affected bees. The way he reached to his conclusion was to inspect every dropped mite on his varrao floor for damage. The colony with hygienic gene had broken and bitten mites. He also found the antennas of the young affected bees which were broken off while pulled out from the cell and very young mites which had dropped form removed youngsters. The guy never uses any chemistry on his bees and he has been successful so far. And his advice was actually to breed only from these colonies which have these signs.
So. I changed today one of my floors to open mesh one. and as inspecting the debris on the old floor i found loads of these antennas. does it mean that i got ( i mean my bees) this hygienic gene?I found no varrao form the floor. some eggs, cappings an these antennas. nothing else. I don't have magnifying class to check for young mites, can't see them with bear eye. thoughts?
Lauri
I mean Hygienic Bees not hygientic bees. Sorry
So. I changed today one of my floors to open mesh one. and as inspecting the debris on the old floor i found loads of these antennas. does it mean that i got ( i mean my bees) this hygienic gene?I found no varrao form the floor. some eggs, cappings an these antennas. nothing else. I don't have magnifying class to check for young mites, can't see them with bear eye. thoughts?
Lauri
I mean Hygienic Bees not hygientic bees. Sorry
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