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Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:14:46 EST |
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<< Will the screens remove mites into the pollen? Has anyone experience
with this?>>
It's true. Mites will fall into the pollen collection tray - it's
unavoidable. Last summer, as I was cleaning my pollen trap from the various
bee body parts that had fallen, I discovered my hive had a contamination of
Varroa. By the way, these mites were dead. Don't be alarmed, it isn't unusual
to find live, crawling insects like black ants trying to co-exist in this
area, too.
So, there are 2 ways to view this - (1) it's an early warning system of a
mite problem and (2) you can move the trap to another hive that may be
mite-free. Of course, some may add a third item, the benefit of added protein
into the mix of pollen :)
Bee Healthy,
Jean-Francois Lariviere
President, BeeHealthy Farms
242 W. 104th St. Suite 1EF
NY NY 10025
212-662-4244 (tel & fax)
http://www.BeeHealthyFarms.com
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