Lets mainly keep bees in a way that is healthy to them (thick wall hive, leaving honey instead of replacing it with sugar, free swarming and free natural mating), natural selection can then do the rest (within 5 years), there will not be a (chemical) treatment that does not also hurt/stress the bees just like with varroa destructor

Why don't the United States and Canada work together with Beekeepers instead of Against Us! Allow us to work with our fellow Beekeepers in Canada and vise versa, stop importing bees from over seas.

There's nothing to cry about. At the worse of it you will cage your queens inducing a brood break.. losing one honey crop at max. Or if you like to eat your chemicals so much go the other route. Brood removal is nothing bad.. you can even get more honey. I'm sure you can monitor it to not get infested and have a possibilty to make nucks from it. Let's not cry about it but adapt

Thank you, for sharing. One question can they be exterminated/controlled by heat to a point that the bees can stand it but Veroa and Tropilaelaps can’t ????

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I am watching from germany. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Scary. Wonder how they overwinter?

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Awesome info just what I was looking for. A colony seems to have found a home in my backyard but they're all drowning in the swimming pool 😢

So creative!

Keep up the good work!

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Excellent video!

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That was perfect. Great information, expertly presented in an engaging way.

Would you need to wash out the clay pebbles regularly? What tips do you have to maintain the drink stations?

Will celtic salt work?

Can bees drink water from the sink without sugar?

I just watched another good video about Tropilaelaps mites - an interview with Dr. Jeff Pettis who has done (and is doing) research on this creature in honey bees for many years: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXm4eYyIgbRge9U "Tropilaelaps MITES of Honey Bees - Dr Jeff Pettis"

Great video. There needs to be more of these videos to spread awareness to the big bee theft in California. Great work Project Apis M, nicely done, Jay

Never listen to the law when it conflicts with your right to defend yourself and others. NEVER

Selling nucs in the spring is big business. Prices have claimed drastically in the last few years.

Having a guy like this in the bee business is so valuable.

Bee rustlin'! Sounds like we need to get a posse together to track the bee rustlers to their hide-out!

This is awesome 🙏🏽

So why would we eat their honey 🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏾

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All of you are fantastic doing an incredibly important and necessary work. You humble me. Thank you ❤

Is there any opportunity sponsorship for students in developing countries to participate ?

High levels of long term livestock grazing with promotion of grass cover has also greatly impacted forb abundance and thus reduced bee forage.

Dr. Brandon at 1:48:00, such a natural at using Metric! 🎉

Hi all the mites do you now about this in Jamaica 🇯🇲

Thank you Sammy. Very interesting and encouraging for those of us who already use Formic as our Summer treatment.

Some of the best over wintering information and varroa control yet.

Wow, Great information.

So glad I met you Bryan 12 years ago in Fallbrook. 5th generation Ashurst family of ABC . Project Apis shows that through brilliant farming practices, through University Land Grant Institutions that colony collapse and colony decline can be managed profitably. Controlled atmospheric storage is Biotron! Forced temperature control of Apis life cycle, diurnal environmental managements, IPM with pesticide rotations, culling and queen selection: the strong survive the weak. Thanks for making the California Bee Keepers Association and California Agriculture sustainable.

These light weight clay balls seemed perfect to help my bees stay afloat to drink water without falling in. Unfortunately they were more of a death trap. Instead they can’t hold on and struggled as the balls spun-picture trying to stand on rolling logs. I’m going back to my wine corks cut in half.

I lost 20 bees this week because they're drowning in my dog water bowl. I just made one and will move their bowl into a corner and put this one out where they are used to going. They are smart because they are flying around looking for the dog bowls!

Thank i always leave water for animals and i was shocked to find 30+ bees drawn because of me

High mr Oliver i have some encouraging weather news Australia despite earlier predictions is getting really good rain again for the 3rd year in a row for wa but now a band of rain sweeps the whole continent with cold temperatures and huge rains ,more on the way .maybe this will happen for California too, i hope so as I want you to stay in buisiness. your approach to verroa control is so logical. many people who can't think dont recognise how powerfull it would be if we all could identify any varroa free hives and breed from them. Without destroying our income.

Thank you SO much, I just subscribed, been rescuing bees that fell into our water barrels so now know how to take care of that. I'll attach a station to the water barrels which they already know how to find

This was a cool video. I'm not transporting interstate. I'm just traveling from Southern California to the almond groves and hopefully the Apple orchards. But I think I should self manage with the same standard With CCD ,voroa mites .AFB .ect .Thank you .

My bro just wanted a phd but now the beekeepers wont let him go haha

I've been considering making a bee bath ( Seriously? More like a drinking station. ) but was concerned about keeping the water level at a constant hight. Those floating clay ball's answered the question! What about pumice? I'll be searching after this comment but which would be more nutritional? This earned a subscription!

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Brilliant presentation, cutting edge video work, and so universal in communication fir a Usainian! Highly recommended viewing and shared. Shad

How do you keep mosquitoes from nesting in the water?

Great presentation! Thank you, Randy

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