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I still have access but I´m not takinging it back this time.
SP has my e-mail adress and the permission to give it to those interested.
I need my energy to my project, not to defend myself here. I...

I still have access on BS but I´m not takinging it back this time.
SP has my e-mail adress and the permission to give it to those interested.
I need my energy to my project, not to defend myself...

Erik Österlund met Daniel Weaver ( 3000 hives, many many years tf) in Czech Republic but I´m not telling you what he said.

Because I asked the administration to delete my account and ban me.
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Scientists are scientists.
Look at the dates.

I´m very sad that links are still discussed here.
Well, Barry left and moderation changed.


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Because the hives with high virus effects ( defect bees, paralyse ect.) are not thriving and are crashing.

I don´t know the percentage of my hive´s infestation because I did not do alcohol wash...

http://scientificbeekeeping.com/the-varroa-problem-part-5/#the-bees-tactics

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he just stated the obvious, increase of treatments at lower numbers of mites. Where will it end?
Perhaps he should mention that we bred bees without an immune system because of the...

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/41/10305.full.pdf

article in november 2018 bees magazine:

How much we have bred in the last decades in the direction of strong mites is shown, among other things, by the ever-increasing damage threshold:
In 1980,...

They detect the mites by stress symtoms of the sisters and hormones send out from the attacked pupa.



Juhani, what about higher level hives which survive and are without virus effect?

Funny, I feel the same if it comes to the tf challenge.

These beliefs are pessimistic and do not lead to an improvement.
They intimidate and prevent beekeepers from doing anything themselves.

I call a sucess to have any survivors at all in some...

There are many here too, mostly very small hobbyists. Most of them do "live and let die". MB is correct about this.
But there is no advance. Because of the high losses this beeks are not considered....

The flooding with drones will not work, because I can´t have so many hives and my locations are flooded by weak genetics.
My aim is to work with others as a group to find an isolated mating place,...

I use robber screens all season long and I place apart the hives as much as possible. The entrances of the robber screens are going into different directions.
Compared to former times I estimate the...

I´m not sure about understanding the discussion right because of my limited language abilities,
but I have had some good results rotating frames out by hanging them behind a follower board when they...

Thanks Russ.
Introducing queens in some queenless splits I used capped comb from a highly infested colony. This colony survived two seasons and one winter but was one of my strongest despite a mite...

The time window is spring to summer, the measures must then be completed so that the bees can prepare undisturbed for the winter and store the supplies.
J.Lee, a member here in the forum, told me...

I´m never offended! :)



Wish I would know!
I created a feral hive which lives now since 2016, never opened and it still thrives and goes into winter strong and I´m observing some escaped...

It´s the circumstances of your location.

Have feral survivors around to bring good genetics and to provide your beeyard with new colonies after high losses is what many do, catching swarms....

You don´t know if you don´t try.
Why do you think Erik sells his queens to a price we can afford? He wants to have some feedback and he gets it. What´s great is, all beeks I know who have elgons...

You are very welcome, Russ.

Here is the microscope I use, it´s cheap but working beautifully. A member here, Nordak, sent me the link once.
You can take it with you to the yards and make pictures...

I try to find a threshold by monitoring mite counts on the slides once in spring, once after splitting when the first brood hatches, and once in summer before winter bee breeding.
I count ten days...

I was talking right now on the phone with a friend who bred from my Elgon F1 (2 winters survived).
He was on a speaking by Paul Jungels.
Mr. Jungels was very optimistic about the future and wants...