Pseudoscorpion

[alexander]

I was reading a newsletter online, essex beekeepers, or chelmsford, I forget, and someone had photographed one of these in their hive.
Anyone else seen one? new varroa treatment, they eat mites etc!
heres a wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion

it was chelmsfords newsletter link - http://www.chelmsfordbees.co.uk/documents/NewsletterNov2011.pdf

 

[Erichalfbee]

I found this too
http://www.arc.agric.za/home.asp?PID=1&ToolID=63&ItemID=1770
and this

 

[chrismcd]

AFAIK they are small predators - so presumably making a living off all the tiny insects and mites that live in a beehive.

To the best of my knowledge they have never been know to be a major problem

 

[Anduril]

I was reading a newsletter online, essex beekeepers, or chelmsford, I forget, and someone had photographed one of these in their hive.
Anyone else seen one? new varroa treatment, they eat mites etc!
heres a wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion

it was chelmsfords newsletter link - http://www.chelmsfordbees.co.uk/documents/NewsletterNov2011.pdf

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13835
thread already on forum (velvet mites)

 

[BeeJayBee]

I read, somewhere, about pseudoscorpions being sold as a biological varroa control in the Netherlands. I don't think they're the same creature as the velvet mite.

 

[Anduril]

I read, somewhere, about pseudoscorpions being sold as a biological varroa control in the Netherlands. I don't think they're the same creature as the velvet mite.

I started the original link after reading about them as the beekeepers friend in Nepal. The pseudoscorpions will attack wax moth larvae, varroa maybe small hive beetle. They have been ignored in this country for many years. Below is a very interesting IBRA link
http://www.ibra.org.uk/articles/20080611_26

 

[Anduril]

I read, somewhere, about pseudoscorpions being sold as a biological varroa control in the Netherlands. I don't think they're the same creature as the velvet mite.

http://www.jiventure.info/Varroa_Predators
Info about velvet mite/pseudoscorpion (pedofauna creatures that live in the soil)

 

[Andy Duff]

pseudoscorpions have been living in the walls of Ongar railway station for over 25 years which is near Chelmsford and they do not appear to have spread very far or fast.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ongar railway station .

but are there any varroa there?

 

[The Cumbrian]

pseudoscorpions have been living in the walls of Ongar railway station for over 25 years which is near Chelmsford and they do not appear to have spread very far or fast.

Are you sure these are not true scorpions - Euscorpius flavicaudis which is not native and I believe originated from Tilbury docks.

False Scorpions on the other hand are native.