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  • From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • Cc: 'OCBA Listserv' <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Great
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:53:04 -0500

Excellent stuff, Lewis! This should be required reading by anyone who claims to "care about bees." Although reading isn't sufficient... taking action is required. And I have learned the hard way over the years that, as Meghan says so well, simply "treating" isn't good enough... we must "control" varroa.  Successful beekeepers must learn the biology of the mite and the honey bee, and understand HOW, WHEN and WHY they interact. We can't break the cycle of destruction if we don't understand how the cycle works.

Reacting rather than being proactive leads to failure. We got rid of malaria and yellow fever in coastal North Carolina by hammering the disease-carrying mosquitoes in a variety of effective ways, not by building hospitals to comfort the victims.

A similar article on the same topic ("I Don't See Any Mites") is <here>.

Randall

On 3/9/2016 9:56 PM, Lewis Cauble wrote:
Great article from BIP.  I have been having many conversations just like this in the mountains.  https://beeinformed.org/2016/03/08/why-did-my-honey-bees-die/

Lewis



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