A powerful tool to select for mite resistant honeybees?!

[@nickford5549]

Bro love your style, everytime someone tells me I’m to inexperienced I watch your vids. Deep end of the pool baby, trail by fire best way to learn! Love the 🔥 keep slinging those pix axes my man

[@markmiller4047]

Thanks Cory And Kaira for cleaning my mind of some thoughts I had before this video keep em coming yall THANK YALL and again thanks for the hard work very much appreciated!!!!

[@dcsblessedbees]

It's great to see a follow up of this gals work. I watched a video or 2 that focused on her work in the beginning of Spring I think, even as a new beekeeper I found it very interesting and promising. My big detractor is high costs and claims of non-delivering hygienic. This spray test looks very promising, hopefully the cost will be reasonable so that a large majority of beekeepers are able take advantage of it.

[@PancakeInvaders]

Great talk, i'd also like to get some of that UBO

[@nkapiariesjeffbeezos796]

Love this, another tool in the toolbox. We still the manual counting method. Great interview. Hopefully this will spur sideliners and small commercial peeps to dip their toe in it

[@neilbush9873]

Western Australia: ive been looking for a way to check higene behaviour and it was all to hard ,but you've seemingly gone beyond that and now with varroa mites breathing down our necks in australia, this way of breading toward resistance is a Godsend especially as the test is a one day complete process. We typically drive for at least an hour to our bee site's ,im also glad you have a commercial interest ,You have a fine mind to envision the potentials of what you have ,it is so encouraging especialy after watching Ian Stepplers last vidio

[@spicyflyhoneybees1478]

I really enjoyed the discussion on FKB vs spray. I've been using the FKB test to help me quickly identify the colonies that I perform VSH assays on. They're certainly linked in some way and rather than having to run VSH assays on 40 colonies I can narrow that down to 10 or less and have seen great results, generally by the 5th colony I already have a 4. The thing that really gets my goat is when I just don't find any mites... Been thinking about getting a few colonies that are not resistant at all so i can manually add mites into the mix.

[@stevensbeeco767]

I love not finding mites, but it does make scoring them more labor intensive on a Harbo assay. It would concern me more, but the colonies were not treated the year before, so it’s not like they’re absent. Just controlled.

[@spicyflyhoneybees1478]

@@stevensbeeco767 Agreed, like you I don’t treat cause that defeats the whole purpose of a harbo assay. I tend to just assign an “inconclusive” to colonies that don’t produce any mites after 200 and will re-assay them at a later date. They could either be amazing or just lucky and that doesn’t sit well with me. I’ve seen a few that scored a 2 or 3 on successive assays and that bothers me but for the most part I have no trouble finding a handful of 4’s so I tend to not care about the others. I’ll be doing II for the first time this spring and hope that it will give me more consistency among the F1 daughters. Going to have to find more 4’s for the drones this season which should be fun.

[@brucesouthernsassapiaries8316]

Thanks for the great video, Cory!!! This could be a game changer!

[@stevensbeeco767]

I agree Bruce. Very useful. One advantage I considered is not getting false positives from recent miticide applications on a Harbo assay. It would be a non-issue with UBO.

[@joshw9465]

So excited about this spray! For the past 5 years I have been interested in hygienic and VSH traits. I started a yard at my house with what was claimed to be “Minnesota Hygienic” bees then each year I have been buying and introducing a handful of VSH queens to this yard. Last year I purchased from Steven’s bee company, which by the way amazing customer service. But each year my winter survival rate has improved and I only do 1 round of oxalic acid vapor a year. I can’t wait to add this spray to the mix to focus my grafting more efficiently. Instead of just grafting from my best looking VSH survivor queens that I purchased the year before.

[@beekeepinggarden165]

Great job Cory 👌👍 fabulous 🐝👌 Great video about varroa Sebastian from UK 💪

[@murat5103]

wow. i wish to try ubo on my Apis Melifera Anatolia bees. Brother Adams also use Anatolia bees to build Bucfast bees.

[@HoneyStoneFarm]

I would like to order some UBO please.😁

[@patrickmcneely7388]

Super excited about the UBO, but I'm really curious if you could link the research about the viral stuff you were talking about at the onset.

[@kairawagoner8178]

Virus data not yet published but after the samples from last summer are analyzed I will put a manuscript together

[@stevensbeeco767]

I’m stoked to see more virus data too! Maybe we can chat about that when it’s out? That is a massive and often overlooked advantage to VSH or “ultra hygienics” that I’ve noticed through the years. Extremely low (undetectable) DWV expression on the colony level, even without miticide application.

[@mab0852]

Thinking toward commercialization, an app to track hives, do assay counts through the camera, and catalog the results would be awesome. Just like you keyed in on the recapping behavior in the pictures, having that photo history could aide future research. You can never have too many pictures and pulling all that geographic data into a central database could really help the community see trend data regionally.

[@kairawagoner8178]

Absolutely! This is in the plans for generation 2 UBeeO!

[@stevensbeeco767]

A picture is worth a thousand words as they say. 😎

[@michaellavazza960]

No reason to even count…ml algo could do it from pic

[@bryanbetournay5557]

@@kairawagoner8178 ​​⁠ any dates planned for gen2?

[@kairawagoner8178]

@@bryanbetournay5557 all kinds of updates in the works, at least a few of which will be showcased at NAHBE 2025 this January. Stay tuned! 😊

[@BakerBees]

Great Discussion, Thanks

[@grahamrodriguez6118]

fascinating video, Is this going to be available in Europe? Spain more specifically. ..... Thank you in advance.

[@neilbush9873]

This is one of the most interesting utubes ive seen .I had hives with old combs with bad bald brood i guessed chemical may have been the cause. Working to have all newish brood combs.

[@tjones2ful]

Have you worked with ph levels? Just wondered if there was something to feed the bees that would make the mites drop off that just changes the ph level enough to knock the mites off but not hurt the bees?

[@carlsledge3868]

I can't remember where I saw this, but the mother mite poops just under the capping and that's what the nurse bees smell to trigger the uncapping process and you'll always find the white spot of mite poop @ 10 o'clock and the shed pupae casing @ 5 o'clock, you guys have looked in many many cells after the bees have removed the infected pupae, is this a true statement?

[@ewanfuller5742]

Where can I purchase the UBO liquid to use for selecting stock ?

[@stevensbeeco767]

Optera Bees website has a pre-order function.

[@mauriciocarmona5113]

Excellent

[@alhambraorchardapiary4882]

Interesting when might UBO be readily available?

[@stevensbeeco767]

2024 😎

[@wadebarnes6720]

I have enjoyed my bees this would have been my 5th Year last year I build up 50 house I can't say exactly what happened I had a massive kill off and went into them look good 2 weeks later I noticed the b count just in my yard wasn't right out of 40 halves I had three

[@wadebarnes6720]

I was going to ask why the ones that done really good always wanted to be hard on The beekeeper and the four colonies I have left they have been hard on me at times but I've noticed it's usually when there's lacking food in the environment like it's nothing's coming in you ain't going in

[@rodrigogabrecht7945]

🤗👍✌💖🇧🇷

[@garrisonbeehives5959]

Why is it that anything good is too expensive for the average beekeeper.

[@nate-408]

Surprise were doing harbo assays pull up a chair...😂

[@stevensbeeco767]

@@nate-408 🤣