Not treating varroa

[Finman]

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If all import to Brtain is banned, hijacking ships in Channel will be only way to live in Isles.

 

[Ian123]

"Luckily for us in the UK a lot of poorly adapted imports were killed by the Beast from the East last year"

Sorry but thats just clap trap and i am being polite

 

[For want of a better word]

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If all import to Brtain is banned, hijacking ships in Channel will be only way to live in Isles.

Such ways are in our blood... will dig out the old lantern and make my way down to Lamorna Cove with the old donkey on the next moonless night!

 

[rook66]

This just arrived, how appropriate?
https://weblog.wur.eu/spotlight/nat...=email&utm_campaign=Wageningen+Newsletter+(EN)

 

[Finman]

This just arrived, how appropriate?
https://weblog.wur.eu/spotlight/nat...=email&utm_campaign=Wageningen+Newsletter+(EN)

Such nice story. It is so easy to do.
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[masterBK]

I read that link and I suggest that it could be a case of the mite adapting. It is not in the interest of most parasites to kill their host. It may be that natural selection is operating to select a mite that produces less young enabling it to coexist with the colony rather than wiping it out.

 

[B+.]

I read that link and I suggest that it could be a case of the mite adapting. It is not in the interest of most parasites to kill their host. It may be that natural selection is operating to select a mite that produces less young enabling it to coexist with the colony rather than wiping it out.

Have you done any research to support this? My observation is that, in susceptible colonies, the varroa mite reproduces as normal. Their reproduction is only suppressed in colonies that have been selectively bred to express VSH behaviour at a high level.

 

[For want of a better word]

Whatever one does the problem is the beekeeper next door who imports bees into the vicinity..... the Varroa bomb!

Perhaps an import ban is the way forward for our tiny island to cope with the infestation and it goes without saying strict controls on movement and compulsory registration for all beekeepers and keepers of bees + a controlled eradication program for feral bees.

I will not hold my breath!

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

. It is not in the interest of most parasites to kill their host. It may be that natural selection is operating to select a mite that produces less young enabling it to coexist with the colony rather than wiping it out.

As long as varroa has been in my hives, 30 years, it has become more and more difficult. In 1990s varroa was easy to kill with Perizin and Apistan.

Remember when the CCD begun in USA. First year was 2006. Now it has been seen that varroa is the main reason to CCD. And even humankind is going to die for varroa.

 

[Hivemaker.]

As long as varroa has been in my hives, 30 years, it has became more and more difficult.

That's because you keep on treating them... making the surviving mites from your treatments stronger and stronger over the years... and always becoming harder to treat.

 

[Finman]

That's because you keep on treating them... making the surviving mites from your treatments stronger and stronger over the years... and always becoming harder to treat.

That is true. Life would be easier if I do not have bees.

 

[For want of a better word]

That is true. Life would be easier if I do not have bees.

But it would not be as sweet!

Chons da

 

[Finman]

But it would not be as sweet!

Chons da

Too sweet, because I have now diabetes.

 

[For want of a better word]

Too sweet, because I have now diabetes.

Very sorry to hear that.......

Chons da

 

[B+.]

Whatever one does the problem is the beekeeper next door who imports bees into the vicinity..... the Varroa bomb!

Perhaps an import ban

You keep playing that old broken record.

 

[Murox]

You keep playing that old broken record.

I thought it was satire and irony. Was he really being serious?

 

[Finman]

I thought it was satire and irony. Was he really being serious?

He himself does not know what is he doing. Speech diarrhea.

 

[Finman]

I thought it was satire and irony. Was he really being serious?

He himself does not know what is he doing. Speaking diarrhea. It comes when it comes.

 

[Murox]

that will be a viral problem then.

 

[masterBK]

B+ : What I suggested is an hypothesis and like all such hypotheses needs testing by people with the brains, the time and resources to carry out suitable investigations. Why assume that just the honeybee will adapt? In most predator / prey and parasite/ host relationships both members tend with time to adapt to a point where both can co-exist in the same environment although often in cycles where at any one time one or the other has the upper hand.