Breeding Mite Resistance With UBeeO (Part I)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2024
- Thanks to Dr. David Peck of Betterbee, Cory Stevens of Stevens Bee Co, and Phoebe Snyder of Optera for talking with me about the changing environment of breeding for mite resistance in beekeeping.
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Cory's Queens - www.stevensbeeco.com/
Betterbee - www.betterbee.com/
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Ive been doing Harbo Assay for a while now.
Where can I get some UBO compound to try on my colonies?
opterabees.com/
I just learned about UBO and Harbo testing last year. I believe this information and development of testing is going to really be great moving forward for everyone involved in beekeeping. Thanks for making the videos Nathan!
Thanks Stephen! I agree, this could be significant.
Good stuff! Can't wait to hear more of these recorded conversations. Thanks for putting it together.
Thanks!
Great video thanks for making them looking forward to more of them it was great to meet you at the show thanks for signing your hat for me I really value your view on bee's and growing a business Thanks Again 😊😊😊
Thanks Brian!
Thanks for putting this out Nathan. I really believe this will help get the mite loses more manageable. I have my kit ordered and will use it going forward to select breeder queens from. I have a couple of generations of Cory's queens in my yard and others including feral swarms. With UBO I can clean mites out in the fall so that I have bees coming into spring and select the ones that test the best to breed from.
Sounds like a good plan, very similar to what I’m doing. Thanks!
Great subject, guests, info and timing! Thanks Nathan👍
Thanks!
Enjoyed the video. Lots of great information. Looking forward to more. Thanks. Take care.
Thanks Garry!
Thanks for sharing. I look forward to the rest of your interviews
Thanks!
Exciting stuff. I'm ready for spring to get her so I can test my queens.
The season is close!
This would have been a great panel discussion in the expo presentation hall.
👍 Agreed
God built Creation to continue, it doesn't surprise me that honey bees were able to retain the genetic diversity even with the mite produced die off..
🤨I may not understand all of the words Dr. Peck or Cory use all the time but it is always interesting and gets me thinking. I believe YT has helped beekeeping immensely va the free flow of information that has been achieved because of it.
Cost is the biggest issue to little guys, if the cost comes down it can make a big difference in resistant line saturation.👍 Thanks so much Nathan.
Thanks!
Great presentation I like how you are able to take science and add practical economics to your work
Thanks Phillip!
learning so much here. still so many options !! thanks for posting
Thanks Richard, great to see you again.
Great video, good conversation and lots of good information.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this conversation mate
Thanks Aidan!
Wow, thanks for the opportunity to listen in. Good stuff
Thanks!
Great panel 👍🏼
Thanks!
I want to try UbeeO. I have seen my hives discarding brood and this would be so helpful for selecting a main honey line.
Mine will be shipping soon 😎
What a nice group of bee nerds sharing their knowledge. Good stuff again Nathan. Looking forward to part II.
As a hobbyist it will be great to buy queens with mite resistance/tolerance that can take care of some of the mites so we don't have to be treating all the time. Wouldn't it be nice to do an OAV in the spring and a couple in the fall and call it good?
That’s a worthy goal Russell. Great seeing you again, my son LOVES your lemon creamed honey.
great conversation
I told Cory that we should have gotten a life sized cardboard cutout of you and let people take pictures with it. I totally would’ve done that if I’d thought of it early enough.
@@DuckRiverHoney LOL that is funny!! HA HA, maybe throw darts at it LOL
Ordered a kit this morning. Might as well give it a try.
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Another solid video on the discussion around VSH and the impact UBO testing will have on making it more efficient on finding those queens to use for breeding. I’m looking forward to the continuation of the panel’s discussion in later videos.
I’m so glad you pointed out the fact you can test your hives in the spring and still get a true picture of whether or not a hive is expressing VSH even, if you have treated your bees in the fall and winter.
I picked my kit up at the Expo last week and I’m looking forward to testing my best hives to find my breeder queen(s) using it. I believe breeding mite resistant bees is the right direction to go to help us be better stewards of managing God’s creation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks James!
Cool stuff I meant to stop and get a kit, I feel like I needed more time to really see everything.
There was a lot to see!
Good video
Thanks!
“I UBO’d my bees!” 😆 love this. Can’t wait to UBO my bees.
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Thanks for the great video Nathan.
Watching from Australia, I wonder how we can employ these methods here. We are just starting our verroa journey and do not have the benefit of any natural selection to have taken place in our population.
It’ll be a tough road. You should have some VSH genetics in your populations, but it’ll be rare. Selective breeding will help to concentrate it. UBeeO will work inside an IPM strategy which is helpful.
@@DuckRiverHoney thanks Nathan. We have a lot to learn quickly. Hopefully the industry leverages off the lessons already learnt elsewhere. There are a lot of heads in the sand. Hope that I can help move the dial a little in the right direction. Cheers
Natural selection will work on Australia’s bees, and unfortunately also on its’ beekeepers. A lot of US beekeepers went out of business when Varroa was introduced. I imagine the same shakeup will happen in AU. Those willing to learn, change, and adapt will prevail.
Hi is UBO meant to be used on every hive in the apiary?
The most cost effective use is probably testing your best colonies to select breeders.
What about looking at the drones any body looking at the drone that mates with the queen.
This might be answered in the next video but here it goes. Does the queen carry all the positives of mite reduction or does the drone(s) carry half and you are just hoping they have some of the desirable traits required to make these tests turn out well? Seems like one queen could have great characteristics and terrible characteristics at the same time since the queen is mated by multiple drones. By the way it appears she’s struggling to say anything with Cory and David next to her.
Dave I think polyandry and genetic diversity is a good thing. The VSH trait probably only needs to be expressed by a small percentage of bees in the hive to be beneficial. My guess is that trait sets are carried by drones and queens, but queens are easier to control unless you instrumentally inseminate. Personally I plan to influence drone genetics through drone flooding to my mating yard, and influence queen genetics through UBO testing as part of my selection criteria.
Is ubeeo all over de world? can we expect it in europe and wenn?
We are just launching in the US this month, but hope to move to Europe, Canada, and Australia by the end of 2025. Where are you located?
@@kwagoner83 I come from the netherlands 30 km from Amsterdam.
I just got my first beehive and I'm learning. Chickens take dust baths to control mites. I wonder if anybody's ever tried putting a little diatomaceous earth in their hive? Might kill all the bees but maybe not. It might be much more of a problem for mites.
Diatomaceous earth kills bees too.
I put DE in my beetle blaster traps and get good control on SHB in bee boxes.