His work is so important to the future of Beekeeping . . .

U go Sammy. We have various mites in Jamaica 🇯🇲 and its a very big problem for us too 🎉 one love for Bees 👌 OK thanks

Kudos to you for Dr. Sammy and kudos for him for busting your delivery tech!

Gosh, Frederick, I thought you were an ace educator but Dr S takes it to a whole new level.

Dr. Sammy is one of the best speakers and I love watching & listening to him. Everything about him is exciting fresh and very informative. - Thank you Dr. Sammy and Fred for having him on.

Oh Fred I Love Dr. Sammy 🙌 I did Not want the interview to end 😃 LOL.... Well Done!

You got him. Congratulations

Fred and Dr. Ramsey, that was a great interview!

I really liked the segment on the to treat or not to treat debate , it’s opened my mind even further, I think it’s important to be open to all aspects of the treatment or non treatment of mites , it makes a whole lot of sense to me that if we wait around for the bees to help themselves it could be seriously detrimental to the survival of bees as a whole considering the percentage of damage the mites have done already to endogenous/ feral bees in every geographic place they have been found , I think I will just try to do what I have to to keep my bees healthy in general

Amazing interview! Dr. Sammy's knowledge is mind blowing and inspirational! My favorite interview so far Fred!

Wow what a great guy and I wonderful interview! Thanks guys

What an awesome interview! I had no idea I wanted to hear this level of detail, but I loved every minute of it. Dr Sammy’s intelligence and enthusiasm about his topic was very evident. Loved it!

Awesome information Fred! Thank you!

Fantastic interview Fred 👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️

The best interview ever! I'm thrilled to know that we have such an awesome guy as Dr. Sammy working on eliminating the varroa in our sweet bees.

super fun and informative interview Fred. I would definitely stop and have a chat with Dr. Sammy if I saw him walking with a few coconut crabs and I wonder what my dog might do? I may just have to drive up to Boulder and walk the sidewalks of the University and find out ;-) Thanks again Fred and Dr. Sammy, he sure knows his 'bugs'.

Fascinating interview! I started out on this journey with dr Leo’s book and a hope to be treatment free. My bees have mites and I’ve felt conflicted about what to do. My local bee mentor is treatment free and I bought my nuc from him. But I feel like I should treat them before I loose them. This interview has confirmed it for me. The biggest things as a permaculture farmer that I have come back to is that these are not a native species but we want to treat them as such in the treatment free bee keeping community. I will still strive for treatment free but I will treat when needed. Randy Oliver does not treat hives that do not have a high mite load. He now has a round 200 hives out of the 1500 or so that he keeps that he has not been treating. And he only breeds from those strong hives. I think this is what I will strive towards. Thank you again Fred! I really value having all sides of a discussion to learn from!

Yes! Another interview with Dr Sammy PLEASE. You were a great interviewer too.

Fred, I'm feeling a bit of bromance going on with you two. Are you smitten with this guy??!! He's amazing! I am too!! 😂 Dr. Sammy for the win 😉

Yes he is so smart you have to treat it’s just the way it is I try to tell many people that fight me to death that I’m bad for treating

Incredible interview 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿. Learned so much information.

Thank you for this interview!!!

Best interview ever! Thanks for all the knowledge you have shared. Uncle Ben's Bees

Enjoyed that great interview, have a great Thursday stay safe all 👍🏻

Great interview! Humorous, informative and entertaining. I had several ah ha and wow moments.

Many thanks for this interview. Dr Sammy is a breath of fresh air. His desire for a coconut crab on a leash brought back memories of keeping them in our back yard on Guam

Thanks for this, Fred. I've been a fan and financial supporter of Dr. Sammy's for a while now.

Always a pleasure to watch another amazing interview.

Another winning interview! Your interviews are always so substantial and it was great to hear from Dr. Sammy. I watched his presentation on the varroa destructor research that he did in Ireland and it was great to see him again. What an inspiring man!

I have seen his presentations. Awesome information. Thanks for having him on.

Great interview, it’s great meeting all of the wonderful and helpful people in this community, and as I dive back into the world of bees over 30 years of leaving the bee world my only regret is not staying connected to this wonderful community in some way , I won’t disappear again that’s for sure , my fears and allergies aside I am glad to be back and interacting with quality informative folks , great job papa Fred and dr. Sammy !!

Excellent. Thank you.

Great interview! Thanks!

This is a fantastic video !!! Thanks so much .

two very smart people there!!! keep it goin!!!!

Love Dr. Sammy! His presentation on Varroa Destructor was outstanding. A positive personality for Beekeepers. Would have liked more information and time on Trop. Interesting fact on swarm distancing which conflicts with study showing colonies "sweet spot" for establishing a new hive at 200'. Trait that's been lost?

You have to treat it’s a must

What a great interview! Fantastic information! I have a very strong feeling that varroa mites will find there demise at the hands of Dr. Ramsey's research. Keep up the great interviews. Rick

Fantastic interview! I loved hearing his answers that are based in actual research.

Thanks for the great information!

Very Interesting Video,, Thanks Mr Dunn and Dr Ramsey.🇱🇨👍🏼♥️

Never really thought about a sentence that uses the words rockstar and entomologist but there you go!!!

The young man and his achievements are proof the American dream is alive and well. I believe in being a good steward of God's gifts so I treat. But there are many keepers that are very successful with treatment free. I think to many treatment camp beekeepers just want to laugh off treatment free as a waist of time. Maybe if each side of the treatment divide, treated each other with a little more respect it could be a good step forward in bee keeping. Ty both of you for sharing your time I found it very informative, Blessed Days...

That’s the first time I heard someone put the bees evolutionary process of their inherent deficiencies that way Nicely put

Very interesting interview. Really enjoy these with your different guests. Thanks so much

Thanks Fred for another truly GREAT interview. I had never heard Dr. Ramsey speak before and WOW...what an awesome interview. He needs to be a speaker at a future Hive Life event!!! You two really had a great interaction with each other. Maybe you could share the stage at a future conference? Thanks again!!!!

bee blessed

What an awesome interview. You did him well and he reciprocated.😃

Great interview. Would be cool to see you do one with Laurence from Black Mountain Honey in the UK. EFB has been a big issue across the UK this year and Laurence has first had experience this year supported with the National Bee inspectors. Alot of beekeepers new and experienced have never seen or dealt with EFB or AFB. Would be a great opportunity to have your global network hear and learn about this Fred. All the best Dean He has also recently had a bit of fun with Flow Hives.

Great vdo we all should send money

Good luck in new video stories.😮😮😮😊😊😊

Thanks for another great video and all your work, love your channel, love Dr. Ramsey's knowledge and enthusiasm, even though I don't agree with his stance on having to treat, especially considering the bees have demonstrated that they could bounce back on their own from varroa pandemics in about 3-4 years (Dr. Seeley and also based on the Jamaican and African examples) - developing strategies like grooming, uncapping/recapping, mite biting, etc. But I definitely agree about learning from all kinds of sources, and not stay in our own echo chamber! I love that you mentioned you have practiced TF beekeeping! Les Crowder and I are managing 350 colonies without treatments (no foreign substances used for the purpose of curbing the pressure of the pests and pathogens, including essential oils or organic acids) in Central Texas under Bee Mindful. In my 10 years and in his 33 years Treatment-Free, we have been successful with great survival rates (anywhere from 2 to 15% depending on the yearly conditions). We do so by relying on the scientific principles of Integrated Pest Management, except we don't go higher than the mechanical intervention level because, well, we don't need to if we've done everything else at that level and below. We also teach our apprentices that if they use all the steps at the bottom of that IPM pyramid, they should not need to go higher than that. It starts with good local survivor stock and good quality queens, plus the knowledge to intervene before things seem to get out of hand, not constantly feeding (especially pollen supplements) to keep them in brood and allowing for brood breaks as a rejuvenating/cleansing cycle that curbs mite populations naturally (through dearth contractions and swarming/splitting, as we leverage the swarming instinct to make increases/splits), natural comb instead of foundation so the bees can make the cell sizes and organize the way they need to (foundation is usually 5.4mm vs about 4.7mm on natural comb worker cells, so it gives the mites more time to reproduce), and culling old comb, among other things. There are so many other parameters that can be addressed before getting to treatments, and even then, we do not see the point of propagating genetics that seem to be unfit, so we let them requeen themselves, give them eggs from a resistant/tolerant colony (in both cases changing the genetic makeup of that colony and potentially proactively eliminating the weak genetics from the gene pool), or simply requeen them with a local survivor stock queen. We have seen colonies with high mite counts thrive through tolerance, and other colonies not make it without having an impact on other colonies in our apiaries. We are more concerned with the treated drones mating with our queens and lowering their fecundity while bringing in less fit genetics. Successfully keeping bees treatment-free is a skill set that can be learned (although it's harder for those starting with treated bees). The first step we recommend is to stay away from treated commercial Italian bees from out of state, because that's an uphill battle. All our advice is aimed at backyard/homestead beekeeping though, not commercial beekeeping, as these guys have different constraints and needs (including pushing populations outside of nectar flows, and placing their bees in high competition or quasi no forage available at times). We do manage a lot of customer hives through consultations, and our observations are that treatments all do take a toll on the creature (unintended consequences can be death or damage of the queen, adults and brood, lower fecundity, stress, etc.), either immediately or longer term, and we don't see those be as resilient as the survivor ones under our care. It seems to us a lot of the issues our bees have had with the varroa pandemic are linked to how we have bred the swarming out of them, placed them in stressful situations, and interfered with their natural cycles, while forcing them onto foundation, all that for the benefit of the beekeeper... A lot of what's been done for practical reasons for the beekeeper's sake has created the perfect breeding ground for the mites to persist in a virulent state. In the end, we just don't see the point propagating unfit colonies that can't thrive without treatments (especially since they don't seem to have better survival rates), and we would prefer to not propagate the stronger mites, the more virulent ones possibly (to Dr. Ramsey's point) - but what works for us might not work for everyone, especially if they are not ready to take the lead of the bees and follow their nature, or if their main goal is to push the bees for maximum honey production, so we just do it our way and teach others how to be a successful at keeping their bees sustainably and naturally as much as possible 🙂. Thanks for all your hard work, sharing all your knowledge, and putting out great videos and interviews! Nathalie B.

Darn, Fred - after that I was really looking forward to finding a link to the Coconut Crab Domestication Society 🤣 Great interview though, even if I won't be able to look forward to a pet crustacean!

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Once again Science confirms a creator by the use of the destructor.

That crab walk sideways?