Concepts in varroa management Randy Oliver

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4 ай бұрын

Randy Oliver sees beekeeping through the eyes of a biologist. He now helps his sons to run a commercial beekeeping operation of around 1500 hives in the foothills of Northern California, managing them for migratory pollination, nuc sales, and queen and honey production -- freeing Randy to engage full-time in beekeeper-funded research projects. Varroa continues to be the number one problem for beekeepers. In his own operation, they’ve successfully managed varroa, without the use of synthetic miticides, since 2001. They’ve tried most every control option, and share what they’ve found to work (including selective breeding). An effective mite management plan must be based upon the understanding of the biology of the mite. Randy presents important biological concepts to help beekeepers to plan effective mite management strategies tailored to their own operations.

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@jordanebling2138 2 ай бұрын

Goat. Intelligent and efficient

@rmore935 3 ай бұрын

I always wonder, are the mites actually changing their biology or are we simply selecting out those that are already resistant. If it is the second, then what we should be doing is utilizing BMPs by utilizing IPM. That would mean to alternate or combine but the label won't allow for it. We are too small a group for any manufacturer to go back to get it reregistered. It's just too costly. In which case it's not the miticides fault as much as it is the governments overpowering thumb.

@tealkerberus748 4 ай бұрын

If you can sort the biosecurity issues with sending resistant bloodline queens to Austraila, there's a big market here for Varroa resistant bees now the givernment has thrown in the towel on keeping the mites out of this continent.

@MrCloscutz 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations Randy from Michael, beekeeper from Roumania!

@danielr5715 7 күн бұрын

Salut Mihai!

@randallmuir5570 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Randy for sharing the hard-earned information that results from your research. I believe my apiary is healthier and more successful in part because of some of the ideas I gleaned from you. I have twice now heard you explain that your studies reveal OA degrades rapidly when mixed with glycerin. In that case, how do you suppose OA can be effective in an extended release medium where glycerin is the carrier? Seems like an OAE pad would useless by about day 3.

@Dave31461 4 ай бұрын

Thankyou Randy Would you treat a colony without doing a mite wash? Are you doing any harm to the colony by treating with ox -acid?

@badassbees3680 4 ай бұрын

12 mites is a dead hive in future for people who treat..been there did all that wasted time ,bees, and money ....My goals to have bees co exist with varroa..real bees not wimpy bees...man will never fix bees problems 😂😂😂get real thats the bees job .

@MinnesotaBeekeeper 4 ай бұрын

Co exist with varroa? The rest of us want bees that kill the mites.

@badassbees3680 4 ай бұрын

@@MinnesotaBeekeeper yeah I have maulers from nature not a lab..You aren't going to win killing mites,you're going to have to have bees that don't get sick from the viruses...I started going tf 3 yrs ago and now completely tf and let me tell you I have just as many bees this spring as I did after apivar ,oa, formic any of it.Ill be glad when I think about as much about a mite as I do a shb...I don't do zero for shb it's all bs you don't need anything but bee coverage...

@rmore935 3 ай бұрын

@@badassbees3680 So all I have to do is quit treating? Why didn't I think of that before. They just naturally cure themselves, huh? Do I have to do anything special after treatment...uh-er...I mean the non-treatment?

@badassbees3680 3 ай бұрын

@@rmore935 they actually do..but it's brutal.. you should probably wait a decade and learn about bees and breeding first and then maybe you can have wood to wood brood and some of the best queens in the world like I do right now...matter fact just went through a pile ready for splits.. and zero chemicals in my combs..pretty rewarding actually.