Concepts in varroa management Randy Oliver

[@NaserSanaei]

Randy oliver.you know you've change my life with your valuable information.thanks and long life

[@Biopaseka]

Сколько труда и сил человек тратит для всех нас!!!! Здоровья Рэнди , процветания и благополучия.

[@jordanebling2138]

Goat. Intelligent and efficient

[@apic.algerie]

معلومات جد فيدة .مربي نحل من شمال افريقيا

[@rmore935]

I always wonder, are the mites actually changing their biology or are we simply selecting out those that are already resistant. If it is the second, then what we should be doing is utilizing BMPs by utilizing IPM. That would mean to alternate or combine but the label won't allow for it. We are too small a group for any manufacturer to go back to get it reregistered. It's just too costly. In which case it's not the miticides fault as much as it is the governments overpowering thumb.

[@goldenbee9978]

Is there any informations about his mite count system he use?? Gettings from Germany

[@tealkerberus748]

If you can sort the biosecurity issues with sending resistant bloodline queens to Austraila, there's a big market here for Varroa resistant bees now the givernment has thrown in the towel on keeping the mites out of this continent.

[@youcefboukhalfa-d3s]

No way to keep varroa out true

[@randallmuir5570]

Thanks Randy for sharing the hard-earned information that results from your research. I believe my apiary is healthier and more successful in part because of some of the ideas I gleaned from you. I have twice now heard you explain that your studies reveal OA degrades rapidly when mixed with glycerin. In that case, how do you suppose OA can be effective in an extended release medium where glycerin is the carrier? Seems like an OAE pad would useless by about day 3.

[@researcherAmateur]

I also wandered about that and I don't get it what he really means. It's now over 7 years that I use the glycerin strips. It must be at least 5 years that I cook a very big batch all at once for the entire year of treatment for over 100 hives. In my experience the strips work the same.. being new or old it doesn't matter at all. I just keep them in the bottom of a fridge in a really big Tupperware container. Actually two in two fridges, and use the strips at the same time when l cage the queens for brood breaks. After 25 days when I release the queens the treatment works so good that it makes it impossible to find a varroa. And I use only 3 strips 20cm long. Not bigger than the Apivar strip

[@Dave31461]

Thankyou Randy Would you treat a colony without doing a mite wash? Are you doing any harm to the colony by treating with ox -acid?

[@MrCloscutz]

Congratulations Randy from Michael, beekeeper from Roumania!

[@danielr5715]

Salut Mihai!

[@badassbees3680]

12 mites is a dead hive in future for people who treat..been there did all that wasted time ,bees, and money ....My goals to have bees co exist with varroa..real bees not wimpy bees...man will never fix bees problems 😂😂😂get real thats the bees job .

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Co exist with varroa? The rest of us want bees that kill the mites.

[@badassbees3680]

@@MinnesotaBeekeeper yeah I have maulers from nature not a lab..You aren't going to win killing mites,you're going to have to have bees that don't get sick from the viruses...I started going tf 3 yrs ago and now completely tf and let me tell you I have just as many bees this spring as I did after apivar ,oa, formic any of it.Ill be glad when I think about as much about a mite as I do a shb...I don't do zero for shb it's all bs you don't need anything but bee coverage...

[@rmore935]

@@badassbees3680 So all I have to do is quit treating? Why didn't I think of that before. They just naturally cure themselves, huh? Do I have to do anything special after treatment...uh-er...I mean the non-treatment?

[@badassbees3680]

@@rmore935 they actually do..but it's brutal.. you should probably wait a decade and learn about bees and breeding first and then maybe you can have wood to wood brood and some of the best queens in the world like I do right now...matter fact just went through a pile ready for splits.. and zero chemicals in my combs..pretty rewarding actually.

[@KayKirkpatrick]

Wow was that ever informative!