LISTSERV - BEE-L Archives - COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

	LISTSERV Archives
	BEE-L Home

	Log In
	Register

	Subscribe or Unsubscribe

	Search Archives

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 >>]

Mime-Version:	1.0
Sender:	[log in to unmask]
Date:	Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:01:21 -0400
Reply-To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:	Re: Pathogen Spillover
Content-Transfer-Encoding:	quoted-printable
Message-ID:	<[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type:	text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
From:	"Benjamin P. Volk" <[log in to unmask]>
Comments:	To: Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:	text/plain (12 lines)

"For example, in my area if I don't treat for mites, the bees are overun by September, and most hives die. The presence of large numbers of commercially run hives no doubt has some influence on the situation."

I just wanted to respond to just this part because there are some effective non-chemical varroa mite treatments.  Take for example the Screened Bottom Board with the Small Hive Beetle oil pan underneath.  Or the powedered sugar mite drop.  Or drone brood kills.  If you're doing all that and the mites are still taking over, then you might have to treat for them, and/or breed from survivor stock to try to get bees that pick mites off each other a little better.

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Access BEE-L directly at:
http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L

ATOM RSS1 RSS2

COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM