Try vibrational flowers tuned to the honeybees' worker pheromone production. It might make them make more pheromones, which might make them want to pollinate more.
Varroa mites are the biggest problem when it comes to bee survival in the united states, nothing else even comes close. A huge part of the problem is the number of beekeepers that refuse to treat for mites and it causes a lot of problems for others by spreading disease. The whole mushroom hive thing seems completely impractical.
I respectfully disagree. The problem all along has been trying to "treat" mites to mitigate their impact on hives. But breeding resistant bees is the answer. I requeened my entire apiary with VSH Italians a decade ago. Zero treatments or measures taken yet my colonies have an extremely small mite load. This stock is the result of decades of breeding by the USDA and commercial beekeepers. And I'm absolutely bewildered that so few beekeepers know of this line???
@mikerevendale4810 Theres no place to reliably buy them nor is trying to breed for that any guarantee. Its not that people dont know about it. Its insane to to think everyone wouldnt be using mite resistant bees if it were a viable option.
@@AdrenalineTheoryCorey Stevens here in Missouri breeds varroa resistant bees. It's the drone saturation from those bees that pass it on to bees in the area when queens go on their mating flight.
@@kevinogden4363 Theres not near enough people doing it and theres no standard for it. Small scale success is easily diminished by the vast majority of bees being feral/non resistant. Im not saying it isnt a good thing but until theres a large scale combined effort nothing will get done.
@@AdrenalineTheory Once again, I respectfully disagree. Wildflower Meadows Apiary out of California is one of two commercial queen breeders who are carrying on the decades of work by the U.S.D.A. breeding mite resistant honeybees; and their website openly states that their stock doesn't require "treatments". What's exciting is that the resistant trait is dominant! I closed my home apiary to new stock years ago and have been breeding my own queens which all have displayed the VSH trait. And that's not all: this stock is seemingly immune from brood diseases, is gentle; and they're excellent foragers. Management of this stock reminds me of the days before mites arrived. The only difference is that I lose around one in five colonies over winter. And my old bee journals tell me that my winter losses were one in ten, if that, before mites. I can't blame your skepticism; I live in a state of constant amazement that the beekeeping community is still going the route of dangerous chemicals when the answer is right before them. I've often wondered if corporate interests have been actively suppressing the truth?
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Try vibrational flowers tuned to the honeybees' worker pheromone production. It might make them make more pheromones, which might make them want to pollinate more.
Varroa mites are the biggest problem when it comes to bee survival in the united states, nothing else even comes close. A huge part of the problem is the number of beekeepers that refuse to treat for mites and it causes a lot of problems for others by spreading disease. The whole mushroom hive thing seems completely impractical.
I respectfully disagree. The problem all along has been trying to "treat" mites to mitigate their impact on hives. But breeding resistant bees is the answer. I requeened my entire apiary with VSH Italians a decade ago. Zero treatments or measures taken yet my colonies have an extremely small mite load. This stock is the result of decades of breeding by the USDA and commercial beekeepers. And I'm absolutely bewildered that so few beekeepers know of this line???
@mikerevendale4810 Theres no place to reliably buy them nor is trying to breed for that any guarantee. Its not that people dont know about it. Its insane to to think everyone wouldnt be using mite resistant bees if it were a viable option.
@@AdrenalineTheoryCorey Stevens here in Missouri breeds varroa resistant bees. It's the drone saturation from those bees that pass it on to bees in the area when queens go on their mating flight.
@@kevinogden4363 Theres not near enough people doing it and theres no standard for it. Small scale success is easily diminished by the vast majority of bees being feral/non resistant. Im not saying it isnt a good thing but until theres a large scale combined effort nothing will get done.
@@AdrenalineTheory Once again, I respectfully disagree. Wildflower Meadows Apiary out of California is one of two commercial queen breeders who are carrying on the decades of work by the U.S.D.A. breeding mite resistant honeybees; and their website openly states that their stock doesn't require "treatments".
What's exciting is that the resistant trait is dominant! I closed my home apiary to new stock years ago and have been breeding my own queens which all have displayed the VSH trait. And that's not all: this stock is seemingly immune from brood diseases, is gentle; and they're excellent foragers. Management of this stock reminds me of the days before mites arrived. The only difference is that I lose around one in five colonies over winter. And my old bee journals tell me that my winter losses were one in ten, if that, before mites.
I can't blame your skepticism; I live in a state of constant amazement that the beekeeping community is still going the route of dangerous chemicals when the answer is right before them. I've often wondered if corporate interests have been actively suppressing the truth?
Amazing music! Let's protect the honeybees! For us and the bees.
Nice sharing
You lost me at climate change and millions of years. Smh