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What's Wrong With My Beehive - Varroa Infested Colony - Varroa Damage - Varroa Bomb

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What's Wrong With My Beehive - Varroa Infested Colony - Varroa Damage - Varroa Bomb
I inherited these colonies from a deceased beekeeper so they havent been treated for at least 12months, possibly longer than that.
Its the worst varroa infestation I have ever seen!
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@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801 4 года назад

Laurence. Thanks for another very informative video, look forward to the next one. My four colonies are doing well, considering my disaster over winter when I lost both of my colonies (starvation- my fault as I took my eye of the ball and assumed they had enough food) I restarted with swarms (April and May) which arrived on their own accord, they seem healthy and prolific, but I will make doubly sure they have enough stores this time. Regards, Peter

@BlackMountainHoney 3 года назад

Hope you are well Peter. Better late than never hey! I completely missed this comment :(

@dalebergkvist 3 года назад

Thanks for the knowledge! You should try the BeeScaning app for detection, find the mites with your camera and AI! Works great!

@grahamkingsland 4 года назад

Great video, I’m a bit sketchy on spotting diseases so looking forward to the next ones.

@BlackMountainHoney 4 года назад

Luckily we dont get too many diseases but we will always post videos when we get anything to help others with the identification.

@IcemanMobile 4 года назад

Another great video - thanks. Before I say anything, want to say I treat for varroa - I'm quite traditional with a treatment at the end of the summer and then trickling OA midwinter. I know you mentioned that you're a little bit sceptical of those beekeepers who say they don't treat. My own mindset is that I'm totally flummoxed as to what is really the correct way forward. I've seen varroa on my bees - I know treatments work. But at the same time I'm confronted with these same beekeepers who claim to never treat, AND on top of that you regularly see colonies being taken out of walls and old trees who have obviously been in there for generations and have never been treated. I really don't know what the answer is - there are obviously scenarios in which the bees appear to be fine without treatment, but whether that's genetics, location, weather or whatever, I don't know. Going forward, what's the answer - I certainly don't know. In the meantime I'll continue to treat. Cheers again.

@BlackMountainHoney 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed the video. In terms of beekeepers who say they are 100% treatment free, I dont think they are being dishonest (well some might be) but rather they have been through a very painful process to get there i.e. significant losses over 90% to reach stock that can tolerate varroa. I think the colonies in trees or walls are regular swarmers so it may only be a 2 year old colony but it just appears like they have been there forever. Also, very swarmy genetics helps with the battle against varroa as you get regular brood breaks which helps keeps the varroa population low. I am not in beekeeping to breed a varroa resistant bee. I will leave that to the experts. This years F0 breeder has VSH traits but I will still treat her and her offspring as I have too much to lose by not treating.

@bengibbon9229 3 года назад

Brilliant video, thank you.

@BlackMountainHoney 3 года назад

Cheers Ben. Glad you enjoyed it

@TimS366 4 года назад

Interesting and follows my own experience with 'rescued' hives a few years ago although mine were not quite as bad as yours. The chances of anyone with just a few hives coming up with varroa resistant bees is slim to non existent, especially when professional breeders with many hundreds/thousands of hives have yet to achieve that aim. These no treatment beekeepers are mostly just spreading mites around the local hives and probably killing more bees than they know. It is interesting when I start to quiz them about how they measure their bees resistance to the mite that they always go quiet because non of them have any idea of the standard tests or how to carry them out! Formic is what I would have chosen, not sure about the use of MAQS with supers in place. I know that the literature from NOD is very non specific about its use with supers and the NBU also don't say yes and don't say no either which is not much help. I haven't asked them myself but I expect the answer will be no! Anyway good luck with your rescue I am sure that you will sort them out!

@tomsilberberg1978 4 года назад

In my local area around Wiltshire they've developed a F1 Varroa Resistant honeybee, the guy who researched it is nearly 90 years old and has been keeping bees since WW2, very cool stuff, they're like celebrities. Sadly some teenagers recently destroyed all his hives, microscopes and about £30,000 in damages. Truly is a crying shame when it's so important for my generation to be learning this stuff. Ah well, I'm off to go put a stealth beehive up in a tree today as part of a volunteer community project to get more people engaged with the art of Apiculturalism (might have invented that word)

@TimS366 4 года назад

@@tomsilberberg1978 Ron Hoskins is very well known in beekeeping circles and has done sterling work on varroa resistance for the last 20 years of so. If there was a truly varroa resistant honeybee don't you think we would all be using them? The reality sadly is that we have not reached that holy grail yet, but varroa resistance is the way to go. There are sadly huge practical obstacles to achieving these goals and the varroa resistant honey bee is years away yet. Don't get caught out by the hype from the greens and the press, reality is the here and now.

@williamsummers6438 2 года назад

Treatment of varroa with chemicals will never be benign, because they, and bees are both insects and tend to be killed by the same things. The ZEST hive takes another approach to suppressing varroa. As a design it is a warm, dry, well insulated hive that maintains a high humidity, which the varroa are proven not to like. It is also easier to make warmer so the pupating bees at the brood perimeter hatch up to 2 days earlier, allowing less time for the varroa mites to hatch causing them to decline exponentially.

@BlackMountainHoney 2 года назад

Bill. I'm always up for a challenge. Do you suggest not treating the bees in my ZEST hive and relying on the high humidity environment to keep the varroa levels to a manageable level. I have to say, I'm naturally slightly dubious of this approach

@williamsummers6438 2 года назад

@@BlackMountainHoney Laurence. I was dubious as well when Judy Challoner ( a ZEST owner) refused to treat her ZEST (about 7 years ago) until it needed it. I monitored it over 2 years and it did not get any varroa nor its marker DWV. Still less than totally believing I went to another ZEST owner (Stuart Ferguson) on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury to do a late split. As I cleared out the floor I said that I would show Stuart some varroa in the hive debris. There were none nor any DWV. This was not a ZEST hive design intention, but an accidental discovery. Half of all discoveries such as this are found by accident. It then became necessary to discover why this was the case, and is in the book you have. It is the high humidity (certainly, but the mechanism is unknown) and the warmth (probably) reducing the pupation time allowing the varroa less time to mature in the cells. See Page 21 of the book for humidity and Page 50 for temperature. I admire your "slightly dubious" as indeed I was, but I say again the correct ZEST hive design is functionally free of varroa. If you want to speak to Judy, Stuart and others I can give you there e-mails.

@BlackMountainHoney 2 года назад

@@williamsummers6438 I'm always open to trying new things. I'm happy to leave the ZEST Hive to their own devices and see how they get on

@williamsummers6438 2 года назад

@@BlackMountainHoney Laurence. You will not be disappointed. We have not been.