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- From: Robert King <robk2.mindspring.com AT gmail.com>
- To: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- Cc: Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 17:36:20 -0400
Hi Randall, Thanks for your reply. My goal, at least in part, is to find a treatment that works well enough, to quickly analyze the phonetic mite levels in a colony, similar to the sugar roll, that integrates with regular beekeeping practices which will make mite testing more efficient. Folks doing the "no-treat" method or many unacceptable methods (mineral oil every week) are dangerous to the beekeeping community as a whole by allowing their bees to carry mites and should test for mites at a minimum. My thought is that if you make testing easy, then hopefully it will be done. I am not trying to re-invent the wheel, rather take a different approach with evaluating mites which is natural and efficient. Sugar rolls take about 10 minutes per hive and rid the mites of 300 bees. If I could test for mites in 10 to 15 seconds and rid my colonies of 50% of phonetic mites, while keeping all bees alive, I'd call that a net gain. At the end of the day, you are going to have to treat for mites with formic acid or a treatment that penetrates the cells when the flow is not "on" in order to rid your colony of most mites. Finding a test that helps rid the phonetic mites and attempts to keep mites from spreading amongst foragers, I think will help prevent our hives from being re-infected with gravid females who pop out eggs and start the whole process over again more quickly. This mite problem is so endemic to the world wide population of honeybees, my hypothesis (and others too) is that it will take a multi layered approach to keep the mites at bay. One of the big challenges that I see in the world is the hobbyist that is all natural and does not treat, but worse yet, dos not test. I have been working on converting some of the "no treat" folks I run across online into believing in testing, at a minimum. I find the biggest problem is that the "no treat" folks are brainwashed into thinking that honeybees will adapt faster than mites and nature will take care of itself. In addition, I think that some of them are lazy, but most all have not had a class. This is my effort to help these folks to test for mites in order to protect my bees from what could be negligent beekeeping practices. Please let me know if you think that my thought process if off here. Please poke holes in my discussion and prove me wrong. Kind regards, Robert King Sent from my iPhone
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[ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
John Rintoul, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Randall Austin, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Randall Austin, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
- Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment, Randall Austin, 05/21/2017
- Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment, Robert King, 05/22/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Randall Austin, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Randall Austin, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
Robert King, 05/21/2017
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Re: [ocba] interesting mite treatment,
John Rintoul, 05/21/2017
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