From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 07:33:09 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Varroa control

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping:

Keith has written a good queston:

> This subject has probably come up in the past but, How do BioBeekeepers
> control varroa?

Reply:

First of all here is a url for published biological control field management
by Apiacta, an international technical magazine of apicultural and economic
information, issue 4 XXVII 1992 pages 109-117, Titled suggested Biological
Manipulative treatment for Control of Honeybee Mites

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/apiacta1992.htm

Treatment by biological field methods includes:

1. Dealing with artificial oversized brood combs, etc that mutate honeybees
bodies larger and thus out-of-tune with natural flora. This has brought on
problems worldwide for pollenation of natural flora resulting in native
species of plants disappearing from lack of pollenation. Why because it is
difficult to creat new honey plants and bees which can be reproduced as such
for every plant on earth. Dealing with the problem is simply reverting the
bees back onto natural sizing through regression.

2. Restoring health and immune system balance back to bees created by
artificial diet causing inadequate nutrition. Dealing with the problem is
simply not feeding artificial foods and giving bees instead honey and real
pollen to eat again!

3. Also concerned is the artificial medical treatment by chemicals/drugs,
essential oils and acids rther then biological treatment through natural
management, causing many disorders. Dealing with the problem is simply
natural management coupled with wholesome food to rebuild immune systems and
proper comb size.

4. also concerned, but published in another article in apiacta is breeding
by natural methods and proper timing rather than heavy usage of insemination
and inbreeding on which no species on earth lives long in evolution
(inbreeding).

I hope this helps some. I am sure that others here can give more pointers
also.

Dee