New Honey Bee Behavior Against Varroa Mite?
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The video discusses the evolution of defense mechanisms against Varroa mites in honey bee colonies. It highlights the concept of social immunity and the resistance of certain honey bee populations to Varroa destructor. The study by Dr. Melissa Oddie explores the behavior of uncapping and recapping brood as a potential mechanism for disrupting mite reproduction and improving colony survival. This finding provides valuable insights for queen breeders in selecting bees with enhanced resistance to Varroa mites.
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I can't believe I am just finding your channel! Your videos are great.
Bees will always be better at being bees then humans are.
Why on earth would bees wanna be humans?
Thanks! going to watch the interview.
This was a great video!! Thank you!!
For bees to get to this point of hygienic behavior, do they need to be untreated for varroa for a period of time?
I guess my line of thought is, can they learn this behavior if we are constantly helping them fight it with treatments? Sorry if my questions are not good. I'm a new beekeeper and learning new stuff all the time.
Yes, many people have done this, many in the beekeeping world don’t acknowledge them but even big names like Randy Olivier are starting varroa resistant operations. What hygienic and behavioral traits that make them resistant the question. The idea is that there are probably a constellation of traits that enabled varroa resistance, this is just another possibly newer observed trait.
Checkout @sbgmimedia. You can select for resistance at all levels of experience. You need to know what to look for!
. Correct. I know BWeaver, Cory Stevens, I recently learned of a darwinian extremist that seems to be on the same page as myself, Solomon Parker, and many others. Like I've been saying for years, chemical life support isn't a solution. There are pests and diseases that we'll never know about, because they've been left in the dust on the roadside of evolution and adaptation, over the bees 50-100M years of evolution prior to us knuckle dragging hairless apes deciding to play God and be the "saviors" of the planet. All the while, believing the lies of the chemical corporations that are raking in profits while destroying the planet and pushing "climate change" as a diversion tactic to take the attention off themselves.
The bees have far surpassed most other species on the planet; and will continue to do so without our help. WITH out "help" they'll likely lose all adaptability, gain complete dependency and face extinction due to the other issue that our attention is being diverted from.
I find it funny that Sub-Saharan Africa is the hive beetles native habitat. But the first country they were introduces to, in 1996, was the US. The first sign of hive beetles in Egypt wasn't until 2000, at which time they were eradicated and haven't been reported since. They were introduced to Australia in 2001, Canada in 2002 and spread around since. One would think that they would certainly make it into Ecuador, El Salvador and Brazil before making it to Hawaii (a US state/providence).... nope. And this is from Bayer+Bayer's publication about them, where they of course talk about the treatment options they offer.
I've been called a conspiracy theorist. But I find it kinda funny how all these invasive "oest" species get spread all around the globe and the US. Like the new Tropilaelaps mites that we hear "are coming". But the last guys to try and import varroa resisten Apis Cerana are spending 25 years in federal prison.
And then there's the all too fishy story of how the Varroa reached Australia. Official story is a greedy millionair commercial beekeeper with a large operation took a vacation to New Zealand or something and smuggled 24 queens in on his purpose through the airport. And just like that the few mites that came on the attendant/retinue bees started a masssively viral outbreak that swept through like wild fire, devastated the beekeeping industry, and caused the beekeepers (whose colonies were being burned) to cause an outcry for the government to approve the treatments. Awfully convenient for the insecticide companies. But I'm crazy for having my suspicions of stories that seem very low in probability.
I have been a bee keeping for 5 years now. At the start I followed what most other beekeepers did. Doing treatments, sugar water and Langstroth design. I always felt that bees make it in the wild just fine so why em I doing all this work?
Then I found Dr. Leo Sharashkin.
It’s been 4 years of full natural bee keeping I don’t have major issues with Varroa mites.
Happy bee keeping 🙂
Thank You, Please publish more videoes for public. Thanks Seyed-Ali, NC
Cory Stevens, Stevens Bee Co, has been using harbo assays to assess colonies for SMR (Suppressed Mite Reproduction) and IMO is ahead of the curve on this topic . Cory has been using II to reinforce SMR characteristics since 2014.
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What if you went thru your hive and poked holes carefully into the cells disrupting mites growth. Would the bees just fix the hole? I'm seriously interested in this!
We would still be keeping and breeding domesticated bees depending upon us , look how bad we have screwed up already.. poor bees ... free the bees !!
Hmmm, i could see a tool being developed that allows a gentle uncapping of brood.
I have noticed uncapping and recapping in my colonies before. My survivor stock will sometimes even display this behavior with drone brood.
Humberto, 100% of my queen lines, originate from cut-out removals. I have been selectively propagating from those that are the best able to keep their mites down for seven years now. I have never purchased bees but unfortunately, I've only had the option to utilize open mating. (although I do dream of being selected to be trained in instrumental insemination in the Penn State EPIQ program I participate in). My apiary varies from about 70 to 100 colonies so I do think I am saturating my local DCA's. My Bees absolutely show a high amount of uncapping and recapping behavior. The population also clearly has a high degree of VSH behavior and a smaller percentage also show mite biting. I have anecdotally recorded observations of all three across many years, but I have never performed Harbo Assays or summarized all my data. I also have many years worth of mites taped to paper so I could quantify the mite biting if I could ever find the time to do so. It is my personal belief that honey bees have these anti-mite pre-adaptations in populations already... The challenge is allowing natural and artificial selection a long enough time to function to increase the portion of population expressing these traits (with the lofty end goal of reaching fixation which, of course, will never happen, given the species extreme polyandry and the number of Beekeepers continuing to bring in unselected genetics). The biggest challenge is that it really only takes one or two "bad apples" as they say to generate enough mites to spread and impact the whole population. When that happens (twice in my case) I wind up having to treat all my bees instead of just those that need it and this of course sets back any meaningful evolution. So far I have been lucky because these useful traits have continued to persist in my population.
I have over 30 colonies of varroa sensitive bees and have recapping and cannibalisation/removal.
The main point is my colonies are really strong. With varroa counts at zero or one.
Do you feel they are co existing with the mites forming a type b immunity if you will ???
Maybe not Intentionally letting them stay around But by regulating them to such low numbers yet not being able to completely eradicate them causing a bond.. ???
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Sorry for an off-topic question, but I was wondering if you were aware of any studies on the viability of 10-HDA as a varroa-repellant, or of Stearic Acid suppliment to feeding to encourage higher levels of 10-HDA in worker glandular secretions.
Great information tag
@@trevormcnutt9756 It's something that's interested me for a while. It seems pretty conclusive to me, but results need to be replicated and other studies need to be done on what ELSE 10--HDA does: messing with it could have serious unintended consequences. I was hoping there was more information out there.
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I'm reading keeping bees with a smile by Fedor lazutin. I'm convinced after seeing so many great possibilities, actually studies, and home experiments it is just us .... we are the problem !!!!!
On one hand we say bees are Intelligent beyond our understanding and control , on the other hand we treat them like stupid insects that need our help and intervention. You said it the best there will be undiaconsequences for meddling with nature...
Another great study that just came out .
( I'm not sure how they did this I didn't see it )they must have taken the bees off off the capped brood . Brood can reach a temperature of 106f before dying mit die at 105f
So they heat the brood at 104.1 for 2 hours. 100% effective those numbers are examples not accurate!
The problem lies, even if we kill all the mites in one single colony were not killing all the mites throughout the world the mites are here to stay and the bees need to Evolve adapt learn to coexist with them build an immunity and a natural resistance to them. Natural selection is raw nature most won't make itAnd humans keep these ones alive that are supposed to die causing actually problems That nature will take even more time to adjust if she's ever allowed to
Cool stuff, Vdm must be stopped before they go after humans! Aahhhhh
If varroa mites evolved then bees definitely can too !
is this race creating with african bees
No.
There's a good chance somewhere down the line , they have natural resistance but so do other types