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About the only worth wile thing so far in this study is was (at lest for me) the final death nail in small cell as a mite fighting measure... but it is of note the SC hives made more honey per...

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and this is the case with any domestic live stock
I think the killing of "the best" is a missguided view
merely they killed the ripe and the ones that would take up inputs to over...

As it operation specific I will place my response in your thread :thumbsup:

I realy wish I could respond to antagonists in MB's calm metered tone... Its a skill I lack lol

Not the case at ALL and is an out right internet falsehood perpetuated by TF partisans!
the Kefuss bees were highly selected post survival .. Mite washes, Freeze killed brood hygienic assy, brood...

From the link

odd "fact" indeed with no source

My understanding is a manufactured hive often has many, many, many more bees then natural do to swarm prevention management and a volume many...

Built the hydrocynus version from the parts list in post #869

I felt I was getting too much splatter from the bottom mounted tube, especially when treating 2-3 brood chamber hives, It felt like...

http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?type=pdf&article=ca.v022n07p2

darn you, I had things that needed to get done this evening!
now I have to watch it before the copywrite volition is reported to YouTube
"HoneyLand" is the US title https://honeyland.earth/

bingo, if people would pinch 80%+of the survived queens and replace them with better ones we could weed out the week and improve Resistance with improved queens, and more importantly improved drones...

well I agree on most of what he posts, just think he triped him self up here.. it happens, to all of us.
I agree with his position, Internet TF is a crock.
Either you take the "loses" threw hive...

I don't see how you you could feel sub 5% varroa losses for non migratory keepers as "high"

I have found some videos have it like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQ6hRgM43o

and outhers like this one don't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFAIS1VWJqE

game changer!!!!
thank you so much

I don't see how one can draw that conclusion with out a test group of a different origin,
From your link "After winter losses of 62.3% in the chemical free (CF) management system, 13.0% in the...

You very well may have one hive with better drones, but your flooding your self out with advrage drones from the 68% of what lived. and If you split your best hive a few ways, you lose the drone...

exactly my point

highly unlikely that your drones are any better

loss is loss is loss
We are talking about the trait of winter survival and selection
It dosen't matter weather its mites, poor climate fitness, or that they are poorly adapted to your methods, etc....

Hasan Al Toufailia, Luciano Scandian, Kyle Shackleton & Francis L. W. Ratnieks (2018) Towards integrated control of varroa: 4) varroa mortality from treating broodless winter colonies twice with...

Kanbar, G., and Engels, W. (2003). Ultrastructure and bacterial infection of wounds in honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupae punctured by Varroa mites. Parasitology Research 90: 349-354.

I think its wrong to think of the "best" being harvested. Often it was ones that didn't swarm a 2nd (or 3rd) time and there for built up . That was undesirable genetics to this type of management,...

Kanbar, G., and Engels, W. (2003). Ultrastructure and bacterial infection of wounds in honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupae punctured by Varroa mites. Parasitology Research 90: 349-354.

It wasn't given a fair shake..... re queening in Aug with resistant stocks after the hive sat all year untreated and with non resistant queens building a mite load would seem a sure way to fail, hive...

I have cerntily had many come back to the hive.

This summer I had a box of caged virgins and cover bees I was marking.. One got a way and flew off, later found her in the box

https://www.spectrumchemical.com/MSDS/LC26750.pdf
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Well the exposure limits are advraged... they work out to 3.3 mg per shift(1mg per M3, 7 L of air breathed per min, 8 hours) ...

very well done video!!!
What am I missing? all I see is Doolittle (grafting) I didn't see the miller method any were