Mite Resistant Queens (Cory Stevens Interview Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2022
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In this interview with @stevensbeeco767 we discuss selecting queen genetics.
Link to Cory's website:
www.stevensbeeco.com/
Link to Harbo's VSH Assay:
www.harbobeeco.com/measure-vsh/
Link to Cory's presentation on selecting VSH in honeybees:
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I’m glad you came out to the farm Nathan. I really enjoyed our conversation and I think we covered some useful and practical topics.
Thanks Cory, I really enjoyed it.
Best VSH video, with plenty of helpful information on the topic, THX guys, and tip of cap for both👍👍👍👍👍😀
Thanks!
Enjoyed the video. Lots of good information. Love the idea of breeding for varroa resistance for commercial use instead of mechanical devices. Thanks for the video.
Nice interview. Very relaxed conversation looking forward to the next part. I like his approach.
Thanks!
Excellent conversation. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Adam!
Wow! This is excellent. Many VSH and treatment terms and concepts clarified. You consistently put out good content.
Thanks Dwight!
Throughly enjoyed the interview. It’s definitely a big learning process. Makes my brain burn. Thank you. May you be blessed and prosper brother.
Thanks, it’s interesting because there’s always more to learn and think about. Makes it fun.
Great vid mate, good questions and discussions. Nice work
Thanks Aidan!
Nathan I started last year utilizing 4" sewer clean out adapters in my solid bottom boards with with a mesh large enough to allow bettles and mites to drop. On each hive I also use the guardian bettle guard with the adapter about an 1" inside from the entrance. When setting up the trap I primarily use vegetable oil but have used a paint and spray on adhesive called Tanglefoot.
I find the adapters work well and use the drop numbers to determine treatment if any. If treatment is needed I continue monitoring drop numbers follwing treatments.
I know this is not practical for all because it does require each hive to elevated for bottom access.
Enjoyed the video, thank you!
Thanks Paul, that’s an approach I have t heard of before. Beekeepers are an inventive bunch!
Great interview. Looking forward to part 2.
Thanks Jim!
great interview super interesting.
Thanks for taking the time
Thanks!
Thanks Nathan. Great stuff as always.
Thanks Russell
Thanks for sharing! Great discussion worth listening to more than once 🙂..... I like the perspectives.
Thanks
Fantastic video! Thank you very much for sharing all this useful information. I am very interested in raising my own queens next year but I am still intimidated by the process. I was not aware that VSH was an added trait and thought it was more based on bee type or “breed”.
A lot of people have that same thought, that’s why I called it out so clearly. Thanks!
Nathan two comments right off the bat, 1 way cool fly over, 2 nice choice of music.
I have watched many of Cory's talks, him and Sue Colby have done a lot of work together. In fact 2 queens I am getting next week have been apart of a local 20 year breeding program out of Rogue River, I believe they have worked with Cory and Sue. For me resistant bees plus lite style treatments equals healthy productive bee and that makes me happy, win, win. Some of first videos I watched was some of Cory's lectures building a solid stock as you apiaries foundation. Looking there be a part 2? Ty Nathan, Cory very much for this video, Blessed Days...
Thanks! I’ll actually have several videos in this series. We covered a lot of ground, and most of it I think is really valuable.
Very Interesting Interview - knowledge is a key to keeping Bees. This is very good education . Thank you
Thanks Joy!
I got 3 queens from Corey back in July and I have been very pleased and impressed on how they are doing.
They are demonstrating hygienic activity. When I go into the hives to check on them, my son and I can see the bees uncapping cells and removing the larvae out of the cells. They are strong layers with a beautiful brood pattern.
I plan on buying more of his queens this coming spring and introduce more VSH traits into my apiary.
I’ll bring some of his queens in next spring. Thanks James!
@@DuckRiverHoney I’m confident that you will be pleasantly pleased with them after adding them to your apiary.
I really enjoy your videos because they are very educational. Keep of the great work!
God bless and I’m praying for you.
Thanks James!
“Dead bees don’t like your management” can’t argue with that! Lol😂
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I’m interested in replacing queens. Any and all info on this subject are much appreciated. Thanks for the video
Thanks Dave, there will be a video on queen introduction as part of this series.
I use mineral oil on my sticky boards. I do the same , Oxalic acid , then I count drop at 24 hours +/-. Mineral oil is cheap and easy. Easy to wipe off easy to apply. I pour about a 1/2-3/4" into an empty anti bacterial wipes container and use a 2" paint brush, one dip in, smack the excess off on the sides and that one dip is more than enough to cost the board.. I tried not using oil, and I found the piss ants were carrying the dead mites off.. piss ants won't traverse the mineral oil. Right before my next treatment I use a 4" spackle knife to scrape the board clean and wipe with a rag or blue shop towel.
Awesome tip, thanks!
Thanks guys for all the information. Looking forward to more. Nathan where on the Duck River are you at? Used to go to middle Tennessee a lot.
I’m near Centerville, my family has been here a long, long time.
what u r doing with sticky boards works good iv been doing the same for 3 yrs now and grafting from the ones I like forwarding on to the future I'm go to stop doing that as I'm striving now for high vsh and started this yr with a breeder queen for Cory so the game is changing as the yrs go by and queens should get better as the drones in my area are produced with high vsh.just the way I'm going with 50 hives in 3 yards .
Thanks Mark, I’m pondering heading that way too.
@Cory, does the trait for VSH genetics produce bees that smell or sense the mites defecation spot through capping that gives them the ability open capped cell and know if the brood contains mites in the pupae stag? I've heard this how VSH genetics work mainly in controlling varroa mites, along side high grooming ect.?
VSH bees can detect reproductive mites under the cap through smell, and remove the pupae, breaking the life cycle of the mite. This allows them to suppress mite reproduction. They’re also quite adept at identifying sick pupae and throwing them out as well.
Haha funny this video pops up after our last comments. Are you using any of his stock? I like to introduce some new all along.
I’m not yet, but I plan to get some cells in the spring.
Sounds like great work and a great source of nucs. Can you make any comments about the viability of these bees in northern Ohio?
He’s got bees all over, some at the Canadian border. An advantage of getting virgins or queen cells is they mate with your local drone population, so half your genetics are already locally adapted.
Alcohol wash is positive correlation so if you want to use it look for drops in numbers not total number
Great information. Just shows there is more than one way to raise bees. Thanks for your efforts
Thanks Jim!
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Paul Kelly with UOG spreads beeswax on his sticky boards
I thought he used crisco?
I am less than totally believing that the bees that a queen lays can have varroa resistant behaviour.
I postulate that our traditional thin walled hive designs are good for the varroa life cycle. They are not humid and they are not well insulated and they have bottom entry. Humidity suppresses the varroa numbers for reasons unknown, certainly to me, but I suspect that the varroa's trachea are very small and could be blocked by humidity. Insulation is easier. Higher consistent temperature in the hive reduces the pupation time for the bees by up to 3 days. This means that the mites do not themselves have sufficient time to hatch and sustain their numbers. The varroa reduce in numbers exponentially.
There’s a lot of research available about VSH. Are you aware of any research about your theories?
Only my experience and that others who own ZEST hives. They have proven over 8 years to never need treating against varroa. What better proof. The ZEST is functionally free of varroa. It is a DIY hive. Give it a try and see for yourself. The drawings are there on the webpage together with the free e-book book explaining it all.
“Dead bees don’t like your management” can’t argue with that! Lol😂
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