Beekeeping & 🐝 News- June 2022- Australia Now Has the Varroa Mite- Hyve Time™ EP010
06/27/22 • 23 min
Mike James covers some of the news in the beekeeping world over the past week and if you haven't heard, Australia has its first detection of the Varroa Mite. Also covered is a new discovery on a microbe in the colony that is protecting the honey bee larvae.
Links on some of the news-
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2022/06/iub/releases/27-honey-bee-protective-microbe-study.html
Help Mike James continue doing the show by supporting him personally at Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/solarwoof13?fan_landing=true
Mike James covers some of the news in the beekeeping world over the past week and if you haven't heard, Australia has its first detection of the Varroa Mite. Also covered is a new discovery on a microbe in the colony that is protecting the honey bee larvae.
Links on some of the news-
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2022/06/iub/releases/27-honey-bee-protective-microbe-study.html
Help Mike James continue doing the show by supporting him personally at Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/solarwoof13?fan_landing=true
Previous Episode
June In-Hive 🐝 Todo's- Disease Management, Swarming, and Honey Supers- EP009
Today we discuss beehive diseases, swarming, and honey supers-
Disease Management- EFB, AFB, Sacbrood, and Varroa. How to test for varroa before adding supers.
Swarming- Why do bees swarm and what is the difference between a supersede cell and a swarm cell.
Honey Supers- No more feeding the bees, top or bottom supering, and troubles associated with new supers and the queen excluders.
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Links-
Learn how to bee keep- https://www.beekeepershub.com
AFB testing strips- https://amzn.to/3QBjIAA
EFB testing strips- https://amzn.to/3N2n6S1
Metal Queen excluder- https://amzn.to/39BVupd
Formic Pro Mite Treatments- https://amzn.to/39EQW1i
Mite wash- https://amzn.to/3zORvAo
Next Episode
The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund w/ Peter Berthelsen- Episode 011 of Hyve Time™
We sit down with Peter Berthelsen again to talk about the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund which is helping people give gifts of pollination projects and free seeds for anyone looking to start a prairie to help benefit butterflies, honey bees, and other native pollinators. If you have a project in mind of over 2 acres this fund will send you FREE seeds. This is a must-listen-to find out how the program works and Peter discusses the benefits of the program as well as some of the other things the fund helps with as it pertains to pollinators.
Links:
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Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund Website- https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/
Gifts that Grow- https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/give.html
Seed a Legacy- https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/seed-a-legacy-program.html
Schedule a Webinar- https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/contact-us.html
Social Media Links- https://www.facebook.com/BeeAndButterflyFund/
Site Prep Herbicide- https://amzn.to/3RgMCqf
Battery Powered Herbicide Sprayer- https://amzn.to/3OMpmic
Soybean seeds- https://amzn.to/3NH1R8V
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