BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sender:
[log in to unmask]
Mime-version:
1.0
Date:
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:34:08 -0600
Reply-To:
Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Content-type:
text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Subject:
Re: Small Hive beetle-organic control
From:
Barry Birkey <[log in to unmask]>
In-Reply-To:
<[log in to unmask]>
Content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (11 lines) 
> The easy way to test the hypothesis of whether healthy happy bees on
> small cell foundation will be resistant to SHB would be to take some of
> those colonies to an area of Florida where SHB is worst and see if they
> survive.

AFAIK, there are already hives in Florida on small cell size. Michael Housel
has some. Perhaps we can hear from him on how they have managed the SHB.

Regards,
Barry

ATOM RSS1 RSS2