New way to help honey bees to fight Varroa mites
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"New way to help honey bees to fight varroa mites" is a video about new tool scientists developed to help beekeepers to select hygienic bees that can sense varroa mite infestation better. It is a very interesting scientific approach and I think you will enjoy the video.
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In Europe we use the so called „Book Scorpions“ to fight the Varoa milbes and it works good! Greetings from Linz 🇦🇹 Austria Europe! 😎👍🐝😺✌️🐺
Beekeepers continue asking ,how can they distinguish between Robbers and resident bees? I have an article at American Bee Journal 2018 about " How honey bees fly and steal'. I went through Aerodynamic of honey bees and discover the pattern bees produce are different than resident bees. My point is to discover robbers at the SCOUT stage not at the robbing stage. If anybody need speaker, I will be happy to arrange it. I will pay my expenses.
Its interesting fact that thyme is the richest natural source of lithium, and its essential oil is used against varroa too... Maybe lithium leaks and concentrates in thymol preparations?
@@wolfganggugelweith8760 very cool
Love your approach towards discussing these issues. Science, time, discussions and open minds 👍
I've come to find that feral bee swarms are already varroa resistant, if you live in a rural area and can catch early spring swarms that have branched off from wild feral hives meaning hives untouched by humans living entirely on thier own for years, they are way more hygienic ,diligent at the entrance and create many swarm cells in early spring yet they remain docile unless threatened I believe that thier they key to survival of the domesticated honeybee
You have the right idea! They're more adapted to the local weather patterns too. Did one of my first cut outs last summer from a cabin that had a 3 year old colony in it. So far night and day compared to bees I've bought. We'll see how they fare through winter.
I don't think feral hives survive where I live
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Where are you were in Colorado and they have been the most resilient bees compared to commercial kept and even the Buckfast bees
@@neesqueendom6107 California, the drought is killing them pretty badly.
We're not even trying to get honey, we're just trying to keep ours alive with syrup
@@AshGreen359 😔 my soul aches for you we have been thankful living by the Arkansas River but we haul water for the time being we planted flowers that are native drought tolerant and put them in a raised bed and provide syrup , I also bought a solar pump on amazon and made a fountain watering station for them and they are on it all day, water is a necessity for all creatures so the birds appreciate it too.🥰
I thought the title was " New way to help honey bees to fight V.mites", I was expecting that someone show us one new way of Hygienic behavior to fight Varroa mites . For example to make bees do Autogrooming or Allogrooming. Even though these two methods are not answering the need to fight against Varroa mites, Purdue University came up with another stock which is Ankle biter. I think this type of stock will answer to some extend against varroa mites.
The method that it was shown in this video to evaluate the hygienic behavior by chemical compound spray is very unique and better than liquid nitrogen method. In liquid Nitrogen method , we should wait 24 hours in order to count the number of broods which were removed from freezing area.
Nice video
I'm going to try planting thyme in front of my hive in the spring. Saw somewhere to use a mixture of thyme oil and coconut oil on cheesecloth also.
Sorry to say but Ontario Canada has been breeding hygienic bees for over 10 years now. This is not new just most countries are not doing it.
Is there pollen from specific plants that is healthier for bees than others?
Why are you sorry to say it? Is it a race and Ontario won, so everyone else should go home?
I'm glad you explained what science is and how it works
The study is, of course, interesting and enriches our knowledge about the life of bees and their parasites. But the method, in my opinion, still leaves a place for the tick to live in the nest of bees. We can press time and pass in a few years what insects go through evolutionary for thousands, but as observations show, parasites love their hosts and do not part with them so easily.
Most likely, the ability to separate Varroa mites and bees will appear in third generation apiaries. In this connection, I would like to ask a question to Dr. Wagoner: "Does the Varroa mite have a specific odor by which it could be identified?" If you have the opportunity to ask such a question as the presenter (participant) of the conference, then I will be grateful to you. I cannot do it myself due to the language barrier. Best wishes and greetings from St. Petersburg!
Hi there. I will ask the question to Dr. Wagoner. Thanks for stopping by.
@@InsideTheHiveTV Thank you! Dr. Wagoner herself wrote to me and I formulated my question to her directly. I hope Kaira will answer me. Thank you again for your assistance.
Thank you Humberto, it is so important to understand what science is and how science works. I hope everyone gets it!
UV light tunnel at the entrance is very effective as well. Although it only deals with foragers, overall mite level drops significantly.
Never heard of it.
@@Billy13427 true, but not their bellies
The varroa mite is easily dealt with by hive design. If you keep your bees in thin walled hives with all the environmental integrity of a cardboard box the varroa mite will thrive. Change that and the mite will fade away.
It is well known that the varroa mite does not do well in a humid environment. (The precise mechanism is not known to me). If you put the bee entrance at the top of the brood chamber immediately below the queen excluder a VIBEZ (Ventilated Integrated Bee Entry Zone) is formed and this will serve to make the brood chamber a humid bucket.
The only hive type that has this top entry and ventilation is the ZEST hive.
If the pupation time of the bees can be reduced this will reduce the time available for the varroa mites to mature in the brood resulting in the exponential collapse of the varroa population.
Individual pupa temperature varies over time of day and brood position.
Above 37C. the pupa die. Below 29C. the pupa die.
At 35C. it takes 10-11 days to hatch. At 31C. it takes it takes 14-15 days to hatch.
35C. is ideal. Winter time is varroa breeding heaven.
Ideally the colony external enclosure will be of an insulated material that also has a thermal weight that carries the heat of the day into the cool of the night and the cool of the night back into the heat of the day. Aerated concrete blocks are ideal having a 39 times better R value than a thin walled hive and 19 times that of a polyhive.
The ZEST DIY hive is functionally free of varroa together with the maladies and morbidities that it carries. It enables in honeybees diseases such as Nosema, Acarine and DWV. EFB and EFB have never been reported, but that may be because it is relatively rare.
As a proof of concept you can adopt these hive design management techniques to see for yourself the truth of them.
William, I’d like more info on the ZEST hive.
I like your explanation of science. It’s a forever exercise in searching for the truth.
Yes. that is a good way to describe the scientific method. Thanks
Another great video Humberto 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Kamon.
Interesting video. Looking forward to the live feed
Thanks for coming
Great information, thanks!
Our pleasure!
Very important work. Thank you.
You are welcome.
Love the info. Love your accent. Looking forward to follow up info tonight...
even if it will be a couple days late to the party for me.
Awesome! Thank you!
This is a good tool for select uncapping-recapping behavior that we see in the brood of resistant strain!
Super interesting. Thank you!
You are welcome
Paul Staments resource on bees finds that mushroom are a key factor in gut heath mycelium is the key to heathy bees .
I always let nature do it's thing. I never use chemical treatment. The bees will adapt and overcome if I let them and don't try to get in the way. Thus breeding tougher stronger bees over a few generations. Sort of a acclimated brood and colony.
Remember it's not the keeper who has the most honey. It's the keeper who has the best sweetest quality of honey that is best. Quality not quantity you can taste the difference.
Some wild hives are more resistant due to more agressive cleaning, but wild hives tend to not yield as much. We use tea tree oil in food grade petrolium jellie and wiped thin layer on plastic sheet snd slid in enterance, or mixed into canola oil as a spray when the hive is open (light sprits).
I've seen people use that method for small hive beetle. It attracts them and traps them I guess.
I appreciate all the work you and other scientists are doing. As a treatment free beekeeper, your studies are extremely important to me. Were you at the bee summit in Tsukuba, Japan at the end of 2019? It looked like one of your shots in this video was from there. I was there that year. It was a great fellowship of scientists and beekeepers like me.
Thank you! I was not there, it may have just been a clip added, but I would love to come to the next one!
Thanks for stooping by Kaira and helping me with he questions.
@@InsideTheHiveTV Something I have always been curious about.
I have worked with butterfly conservation in the past in the S.W. of the UK. My garden was planted to accommodate different species of butterflies and included me introducing ragwort to the plants within it. Bees would absolutely cover the ragwort for some reason and it got me thinking.....
Bee populations had been suffering and ragwort is cleared from agricultural land with livestock on it. Could there be something medicinal/beneficial to the bees health contained in the ragwort as they would completely smother the plant?
Any thoughts? 🤔
Just a random thought that I had back in about 2006 and never shared with anyone who knows about bees before 😊👍
It is too narrow to only approach hygienic behaviour from the perspective of varroa. Hygienic behaviour is also a good defender against AFB, chalkbrood, sacbrood, etc
Yes, it will be ideal to fight against AFB. Based on Dr. Marla Spivak from University of Minnesota tried to accomplish this but so far as far as I know , that didn't work. But she found out that her research on specific stock became resistance to varroa Mites. Thanks Ali
Hi Adam, I agree it is not ideal. But I also acknowledge the difficulties on the experiment design to pursue multiple factors in this case. Ideas on that? Thanks for stopping by.
Great video! Thanks a lot.
You are welcome
Good stuff my friend!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very well received Dr. H. Science not politicized is just as you explain. A stepped approach to finding a solution to the issue. I believe the ultimate overcoming of Verro will be developed and administered by the bees. As long as we learn to set the conditions in their favor. I have a hunch that uninsulated over ventilated hives are contributing to the problem. Just on overventilation itself the communication and smell system is adversely effected by abnormal and increased air transfer of the hive. Making the detection mechanism more difficult. Even the levels of wanted carbon dioxide by the bees is hampered. Just a thought for consideration. I do appreciate your quest for proven long term solutions.
Hello Gary thanks for your kind words. I appreciated. I am not a big fan of ventilation. Bees need complete isolation. The super organism will take care of the rest. Many honey bee defenses are lost with ventilated hives in my view.
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I do think it's propolis related ...
"In the wild" like bees also keep their deads in the bottom of the hive as a heat moisture and mycellium producing zone, but all the entrance food related quite clean and propolised .
Keeping bee as we do just tends to deprived them from any kind of re-cycling ...
Nothing cyclone shaped tested yet on the bottom the hives .
So, in the end, I'm not even sure varroa had to be take out from the hive, but is related to a natural regulation to go through winter we fight cause of a blindness to really get how things are done ... naturally .
All we call infestation in the hive might be auxiliaries we deprive from their use by the bees ...
In the end, we see pollinate thru their flight way to feed themselves , but don't get they may also "payback" for their shelters, fully respecting cycles and what's the best intelligence to have with, what's life in its integrity ...
They know gravity .
Any hive with a proper place for what would be natural amendments coming from a hive placed under the hive ???
Simple questions on how we act ...
Thanks.
I concur. Here in N. Ga a local commercial beekeeper just explained that we as BeeKeeper's have become a very intergal part of the colonies. Thru the years, crops have changed, methods of farming, etc. so they DO, in fact, need us to help set the stage for their success.
In 2018 Dr. Jeff Harris was talking about the long research towards finding the response trigger. His talk at the Beekeepers Palm Beach County ran down the hunt. Also you might find Bjørn Dahle's talk "Varroa resistance - experiences from Norway" (WeBInar Danmarks Biavlerforening) interesting. Along with uncapping behavior he mention some resistance bees that maybe be missing an enzyme the mites require to feed/survive. Hence staving the mites as a control. I have no idea how in depth or valid the enzyme research is. But yet another avenue. I have seen none of Dahle's observations elsewhere. But what do I know.
I remember the presentation. Hygienic is only one of the factors to consider when selecting bees against varroa.
Fun fact: my last name “Imming” actually translates to “Son of a Bee Keeper” in German
Verry good
Good stuff!
I would like to know what is inside the spray that you use in this video and what can I use as beginner for this test?
Fun stuff! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I always look forward to your videos. Thank you for sharing your insights. This video leaves me with so many thoughts. I am assuming it is mostly nurse bees doing the hygienic work. Is that a wrong assumption? If it is nurse bees and they are doing hygienic work more than a non hygienic colony, what will give? Less brood rearing? Less honey production? It seems to me, with only so many hours in a day, developing stock that will expend more work resources on hygienic behavior will diminish other duties.
Save them for Sunday on our Livestream. Great questions.
Very good ...
Thanks
What do we know about varroa in feral colonies. What are the varroa levels and how do they affect the bees? How do feral colonies persist without treatment? I have built my apiary through swarm trapping and am curious about varroa in feral bees. Thanks
The problem is that the queen can have multiple genetic sperm partners. She can use different sperm to fertilize her eggs. Each bee will have the genetics of both the queen and the drone. So, each hive population will have multiple combinations of genetic based behavior. You could have a hive with a higher proportion of highly defensive (African defensive genes) or hygienic bees. The hive population is in constant flux as new genetic combinations are born and older combinations naturally die off. The tests performed could have widely varying results depending on the ratio of genetics from particular drone at any given time.
Being unable to control who the queen mates with makes breeding for specific characteristics almost impossible.
Liquid nitrogen, I was wondering what I would do with the container of liquid nitrogen I had in my shed ??
A hive design that results in a high Relative Humidity would do the trick
How about controlling/eliminating Varroa through (sound) frequency? This would be a very interesting research project.
this could be a good idea. I was once on my house, where mosquitoes actually reacted on music bass. I played it in the lowest floor. The behavior was in a flying pisition and there were hundreds of them on the side of the roof flying, and when the bass hit, they jumped up and down. It was crazy to observer that.
So i belive that sound or frequency could hold up to a point, maybe fall off or something. Good thinking.
Cheers
Yes, that will be interesting research . I don't know if that works or not , but it is a very nice subject for research. So far my personal opinion is heating system could be effective also. I heard good things about monitoring V. mites infestation through heat. The negative part of it is, the heat effects on drone sperms.
Thanks
Ali
There are people trying and I will try to bring them on when they have something to say. Thanks
It could be applied as a sort of airlock. If bees learned that the airlock- which could have additional environmental features- could be used to exclude slower moving mites, or even hitchhikers, everyone wins.
Hi Cheryl, can you elaborate more on your interesting idea how it could be implemented?
I'll beeee❤ there to listen and learn gratefully
Am I missing the link to tonight's live? I'd like to join. Thanks!
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To date, no one has established a line of truly or meaningfully Varroa-resistant bees. And no one has an answer for how to keep them that way in the normal apiary, which depends on wild mating of queens. The average beekeeper is either buying commercial packages or raising his own bees and does not have large numbers of colonies to screen, nor enough money to ditch the hives that fail the test.
Hi , thanks from France for your chanel !
Do you know if during the first steps of experimentation , they spray a solution made of a frozen larvae in a solvant ?
If they did , do you know the result ?
plant lavender works well i understand mites don,t like it and will jump off , if you plant alot you may windup tasting lavender in your honey
Question to beekeepers: did someone make a link between the age of a queen and the mite resistance? I mean, a young queen is she more resistant to mite than an old one?
more eggs from younger queens -> more bees -> more mites
Mites love acidic environments. Perhaps something can be done to make the beehive more alkaline.
Please ask if this is also relevant to afb, chalk brood and other brood disease's. Of special interest to Australians.
Thankyou for your great show never failing to be of interest.
Looking forward to see you at the Livestream asking your question. Good question and I think Kaira is the perfect one to answer it.
Will there be a recording of this livestreams presentation you mention. I missed it.
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May God help and bless in this work
Thanks so very much for all the information so clearly explained! I live in Santiago, Chile, and I must learn about this craft since my son, who brought the hives, will be away for a couple of years. Question: how come you only protect your face? I got stinged 7 times once, wearing the full gear ( I was careless for just a couple of minutes)!
Honey bees in Chile are more defensive than honey bees in the U.S. Your bees might be africanized honey bees. Please get beekeeping information from local beekeepers regarding best practices. TH-cam can be misleading since most beekeepers think whatever happen in they local hives is the standard in the whole world. I am from Brazil and africanized bees must be handle differently. I don't want you getting hurt and stop enjoying bees. Please at the beginning use full protection gear until you have the knowledge to decide when it is possible to work them without full protection. Enjoy the beekeeping process and thanks for stopping by and watch my videos. I appreciate it.
Honey bees congregate on my spicy oregano blooms. Oregano is a medicinal herb, like maybe a fungicide or something. I think the bees are possibly using it to help with their survival.
Muito bom esse video.
Nice video my friend 👍🤝
I read somewhere about beekeepers putting a thin strip of copper at the entrance of the hive. The minute amounts of copper that the bees picked up when entering killed the mites. Has anyone else seen data on this? It seems like a simple solution if it works.
Wouldn't that contaminate the honey?
Interesting
Thanks for this Channel. I just discovered it 👍. I'm a french non-professionnal passionnate beekeeper.
Welcome!
I have a question for the live. What about the pin test we do in Europe ? Opinions.
And l see it every spring.. the hives that keep the bottom board clean as new, when l open them for the first time after winter.. those always end up being the most hygenic, varroa sencitive bees on the pin test
Save it. Looking forward to see the question on the livestream. Cheers
I agree, the bottom board in the spring is the mirror of hygienic behavior and absolutely sufficient sign for practical beekeeping .... do not waste your time on scientific methods .... leave it for scientists that part ..... best wishes for holydays
We found that the pin test is less accurate than the FKB test but still works
@@pcelarskisokak l agree, but they have a problem. They always end up with more questions than answers.. start with one and end with ten new ones they didn't know about before the first one. It's the scientific way...
It's the experience that tells us that it always starts with the beekeeper inventing something new that works on his bees.. and the scientist comes after to give the answers how, why...
You were right about the nomad container beeks. Yellow jacket wasps, bad positioning of the container for NW (tramontana) wind, my stronger hives 😅. They don't know what they doing. There is a carpet of dead bees full with pollen, killed by the wind, under the hives. And ofcorse l'm finding new varroa drop in mine.
Happy holidays my friend
@@zhiv9 good to know. The pin test is easy to do. That's why l like it
The best brother
where is the link to research papers?
I pinned a comment with it.
What about thermal treatment for Varroa where you heat the hive up to about 42C-43C for 2.5 to 3 hours to kill the mites?
Like everything in beekeeping. Aparently works for some folks and not for others. What I know for sure is that there is some damage to the brood development when you heat them up too much. Is the 3 hours enohg to hert only mites and not the brood? I think we need more research there.
@@InsideTheHiveTV There's a really good writeup on it by the scientificbeekeeping. Just google search "a test of thermal treatment for varroa part 1" He compares the research of multiple sources and compiles it nicely. Then he does his own test in his part 2 follow up article. Time and temperature both matter. Basically 42C 3 hours killed almost all the mites but didn't seem to harm the brood or sperm in the queen or drones. Some of the devices that are for sell to kill mites only brings the temperature up to 38-41C which only kills the young mites. The thermosolarhive guys bring temps to 47C and then immediately lets it settle to 40-41C for two hours. Which seems to me like it would be the best method. Anyways, it would be nice to see you do a video on it since you have much more knowledge and experience on bee keeping than I do. And thanks for the all the great videos!
at the end of the day, as colony fitness is increased...
What spray bottle solution is used?
Let's ask Dr. Wagoner tonight.
Cool
I was wondering if the bees that are eating the "diseased larva" are actually Inoculating themselves from whatever disease the larva was infected with.
Interesting topic. There are some indications that they are and they also get sick. We need to do more experiments to understand this better.
I wonder in yours and my life time if science will find a way to eradicate varroa for ever ,I hope so , take care Peter Australia 🇦🇺
I personally think that we will not get rid of them. It will be like flu. I hope I am wrong.
varroa are endemic and will never go away but are currently being handled via VSH. VSH is better than hyphenic behavior
What about disease resistance? People talk about treating to kill mites or bees controlling mite populations, but could a hive have a high miteload and still be healthy because it is resistant to the diseases that varroa spread?
Varroa is not only a virus vector, they also hurt brood (and adult bees) directly by feeding on the fat body. I don't know if anyone managed to separate the contributions of both to the various problems varroa is causing, especially reduced life span of individual bees.
New spray compound? Of what …..New and safe sounds cool, but do you know what she uses?
All info is on her manuscript. Check the description of the video.
"I am the science"
I first saw the freezing of brood to identify bees with good hygienic behaviour at the University of Sussex LASI about 14 years ago with Norman Carrek. Liquid nitrogen is a little difficult to get hold of. Is there something else that we can use?
Perhaps, dry ice would work?
Beekeepers continue asking ,how can they distinguish between Robbers and resident bees? I have an article at American Bee Journal 2018 about " How honey bees fly and steal'. I went through Aerodynamic of honey bees and discover the pattern bees produce are different than resident bees. My point is to discover robbers at the SCOUT stage not at the robbing stage. If anybody need speaker, I will be happy to arrange it. I will pay my expenses.
How do we obtain the spray to test this method?
Let's ask Dr. Wagoner on the livestream.
@@InsideTheHiveTV I missed the livestream. Was this answered? I would be interested in testing my bees.
I've lost a bunch of hives from hive beetles. Will take over a hive and lay maggots that eat bee larva. Have the traps between the frames and also swiffer sheets on top. That's about the only defense we have found that works...err helps the bees
I had a bad beetle year too, but not in my hygienic hives! I am interested in learning more about the relationship between hygiene and hive beetles...
No much beetles on your hygienic hives? interesting.
Aren't solitary bees the most important pollinators. With an almost 100% pollination rate after visiting a flower opposed to honey bees 30%? And rapidly increasing in popularity due to low maintenance?
the mites develop immunity to chemicals.
Grow garlic near the hives.
Famoso internacionalmente por alguns segundos 6:27 kkk, Parabéns pelo trabalho Humberto, seus vídeos estão melhores a cada dia.
Tudo bem Jose? Obrigado. Espero velo em breve novamente. Abraco.
In Europe we use the so called „Book Scorpions“. Those very little ones kill the Varoa milbes and we need no chemistry to kill them. Greetings from Linz🇦🇹Austria 🇦🇹😎👍🐝🥳🌞✌️😺💪💙 Europe!
I never work with them before. Does it really works?
What is book scorpions? I'm in Europe and never heard about that.
I just did a search on book scorpions, because I'd never heard of them. They aren't really scorpions, but are arachnids that are very tiny, and have two big pinchers like scorpions but no tail. They eat book mites, dust mites, and clothes moth larva. They are literally all over the world. Thank you for your comment, I just learned something entirely new!
@@beccagee5905 this is great information if it really works
Essential Oils.
We as beekeepers can do VSH testing without liquid nitrogen. VSH has been going on for decades, it just needs to be embraced and enough beekeepers with the discipline to do it.
It's not enough...
Why not? Large universities have failed us so far haven’t they? Varroa has been around 40 years and the can has been kicked long enough
@@nkapiariesjeffbeezos796 I didn't mean that as rude,but I have really hygienic bees and they still fall victim. My bees chew wood,literally bite shb legs off and I've seen mites crushed but mites breed too fast .The bees fight them off but there's just too many..the key is for the bees to live with the viruses and keep moisture content high enough that the mites can't stay and breed
Very interresting, thank you sir !
Just make them call help from stick bug lol
As a scientist myself I appreciate this video. Let’s keep an eye out for the best evidence.
Thanks
Дуже гарне відео, я слідкую за VSH saskatraz Оліваресів з Орланд. І сам теж буду селекціонувати бджолині лінії таким методом
Thanks.
Although they are aggressive, Russian bees are the best for grooming each other for mites. IMO.
On science ,perhaps we should be wise and consider the probable motivations behind the financers who pay somtimes large amounts of money to centres of education , we see today more and more conflicts of interest ,however not to throw the baby out with the bathwater I agree on your definition of science and ,yes you have the best u tube channel thank you.
Thanks Neil. Means a lot.
Já me escrevi no canal blz, legal...
Opa. Beleza. Obrigado.
i want work with beekeeper and lrarn beekeping
Fungi is what they need
I bet ya got
No paso nada..
Best option is to isolate queens for 2 weeks than use Oxalic Acid in the begining of August
When do you isolate? (In what month?)
@@kwagoner83 After Honey flow especialy in August in Eastern europe depending on climate
Just out of curiosity: are you Brazilian?
Yes I am.
Moi je vais essayer cette année de planter des plantes répulsives, les produits chimiques, c’est pas top. J’ai déjà installé de la rue, au printemps, je mettrai de l’absinthe, tanaisie et un peu plus tard, de l’artémisia. Là où j’ai ces plantes habituellement, je n’ai pas eu de pucerons, ni cochenille, rien du tout. En revanche, les escargots continent à œuvrer. Mais ça, c’est pas grave.
Use more native bees. They do a great job.
Brazillian bees are very higienic bees, but defensive too much.
Selecting bees reduces genome variety. Breeding a lot of queens from the same mother is unhealty for the species
Yes it can be unhealthy to introduce too much of a bottleneck, breeding must be done wisely! But it can be done well...just look at most livestock, pets, and crops like cows, chickens, german shepherds, corn, etc etc.
Thanks for stooping by Kaira and helping me with he questions.
To further elaborate on "wise breeding", it all depends on how the selection is done. The great potential for this technique is that it puts a relatively easy tool for selection of a desired trait in the hands of many beekeepers. If this technique works well and is applied broadly, the only loss of diversity will be around the gene(s) responsible for this specific trait. This seems exactly the desired outcome. An individual beekeeper could even create several different and diverse strains by selecting for the desired trait in a wide range of genetic backgrounds. It would be likely worse for diversity for either beekeepers or varroa mites to do a general selection for "survivors" It would be even worse for diversity for the "selection" of bee strains to use was to occur by breeders selling most beekeepers with only one or two varroa-resistant strains. The reason that agriculture that feeds many people was even possible was because selection was often performed on a trait by trait basis,...what makes modern agriculture risky is the genetic bottlenecking created when farmers-including beekeepers- "select" strains from a genetically-narrow marketplace created by only a few suppliers doing the selection and breeding. This technique has the potential to put breeding in the hands of many and preserve genetic diversity
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Seems like a lot of trouble when we come just import Asian honey bees
Don't even think about it. It is ilegal for a reason. it can have serious damging consequences. For the enviroment and the beekeeping industry. I might need to make a video about this subject. Lots of people having ideas.
@@InsideTheHiveTV A good idea for a video because I don't see a downside. After all the European beec is already an imported species
@@AshGreen359 We have them in Australia, they KILL native bees. Stop your worship
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Beekeeping face big challenge , I lost my 750 bee hive last two year , only 100bee Hive remain