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Thank you Peggy for your research and tons of factual information!

I would like information about them

I've seen a pollen trap that had the unfortunate effect of trapping/sifting out drones trying to leave the colony. Sounds like a simple engineering problem to make a drone sieve/trap that can be mounted on the exit of a colony to catch enough drones to do an alcohol wash on them early season.

One of the best breakdowns of VSH in a long time. The different mechanisms are so important to distinguish. I've used VSH and Hygenic interchangeably. Will change that.

Question. Why is varroa detected in the brood ? Is it because the pupae emits some kind of pheromone.. if it's that than bees don't remove larva until gets older ?

Is there a comparison or control methodology to assess any permanent damage done to the bee immune system health in regard that all colonies in the experiment were bombarded with regular variety of mite controls? Thank you James VIC AUS

Where can I we get the cool mite bomb shirt ??

That cage is the best one. I tried all of them and invented some and that one is the best. My dearth is all summer long and I caged for 25 days.. let queens out to lay a box and caged again. After that I purposely left those same queens to overwinter.. when in reality that would be the time to put new queens in. To shorten it there was no problem. I'm caging queens for almost a decade and I would go so far to say l don't have a varroa problem anymore

It would have been nice to see the brood population plotted with the mite population.

“Based on science”. Sounds good!

People have non resistant stock 30 years ago

If Randy brings in mite riddled colonies to his yard for experimentation, don’t they come with their own drones? Aren’t those drones breeding his queens?

Dr. Lamas - I read your article concluding that worker bee cannibalism of DWV-infected drone brood coupled with trophallaxis can enable spread of DWV to non-infected workers. My question: If I am using green frames as a mite trap, after freezing the frame with capped drone brood, and returning the frame to the hive to be "cleaned up" by the bees, am I also going to see the canniballizing workers infected -- or does freezing the frame also kill the viruses in the uncapped brood on the frame?

Very nice presentation. I expect ill be watching this again. Sidenote, (minute 45:00) Russian Scion; i asked a Russian fried who keeps bees over there about this when I first heard of it and asked him, what they call this. He told me a Russian Scion is known as a Prevoy.

Sir do you have queens for sale

I used OA in late fall and Early spring. I was worried because of mild winter and they had brood earlier. So I culled some drone comb and went through it and found no mites. I'll do alcohol wash when they build up more. I also manage in summer. Counts were low on mites. But I check drone brood. I got push back from groups on Facebook about going through them. I do have pictures if you want them. I value your opinion.

Can you someday let us know how do you determine something as small as a might has what virus or if none at all? 😮

A mid entrance instead of upper . And a reduced lower entrance .3/8 high and 2" wide . My bottom entrance in the summer is 3/8"high x19" wide keeps mice out A method of year round insulation is a plus . The bees thrive in a constant temperature . Im in White Fox Sask . It gets cold here for Oct To Early April . IF the bees are warm they eat less So i wrap double deeps in a group of four 2 facing east and 2facing west with R20 insulation around the four and on top The lower vent becomes buried at times .And you will find the bees lined up on a top entrance looking out to restrict the airflow ie the chimney effect . My losses this year were queens that played out . The 2 hives with drone layers bees were combined with another small hive with a last years queen . The warmer you keep your hive the less they eat . As far as a preferred location ie a tree i believe its not preferred its whats available. Maybe they prefer hanging from a rock cliff in a warmer climate or a tree branch in the Phillipines . Location location . I believe a good beekeeper does everything possible to give the bees the best life possible year round . Great video .

Why can't I make a nuc and create queens in the nuc?

Probably if my hive is one inch thick and it has a R value of two or three. Then I would need four times the R value on top to get 75% difference to get inside walls to condense.

I would love to hear ( really interested) in how Swedish and French colonies either reduced Varroa fertility or increased infertility? How the Norway and Control colony reduced male varroa absence (many chemical controls effect male population in other insects)? What attributes created delay in Varroa reproduction? How much delay is significant or required to reduce varroa reproduction? Looking forward to further research updates and hopefully answers to the above queries. If the reproducing mite enters brood cell day prior to capping the cell is there a way to remove adult bees to delay varroa production without harming the larvae prior to cell being capped? Thank you James Victoria Australia

Mixed feelings over the range of the delivery in seeing the value of those drone impact counts up against just dismissing the German research outright as of no interest. I felt that was a moral breakdown right there, particularly when during the closing phase I hear you say we should be altering our language to reflect inclusion not alienation. As support for my proposed natural biotechnical management (NBM) model your direction feeds directly into that as drone brood manipulation is central to NBM. Your work is bookmarked at this desk. Shad

Why take insulation off? Wouldn't it help them make more honey in the warm season too? Are there studies on that?

I have been so hard pressed to find quality VSH queens to add to my apiary. My bee club is extremely skeptical (I understand why). Especially Northern oriented queens.

Adding a numbered disc to my F1 queens is not a big deal as Cory seems to think it is. I use Titebond III for the glue. I want the F1's that I sell to the VA beekeepers to be distinctive in the hive so they don't get lost in the shuffle. James, please make sure Cory sees this. ruclips.net/video/jAv_s9VrYII/видео.html

The cells are way way more stable than she’s saying…for temp and impacts. It’s almost impossible to kill them.

1:37:04 Cory, I had one of my customer send me the results of his recent UBEEO score on an open mated f2 I sold him last spring as a cell and she scored 62%, so the hygienic traits from your stock is holding up well. The f1 queen mother she was from was also open mated in my local area while, he mated his queen around 40 miles from my beeyard. Great work Cory!!

That's one good looking queen in the thumbnail! 😉

thank you SBGMI leaders for getting these two experts in one conversation. one of the best learning about queens I've listed to. Keep bring them on talking queens!

My father did alot of good selection without even thinking too much about it.. Over 50 years of selection for cleanest bottom boards after winter and big honey crop and healthy bees ofcourse.. living on an island.. I didn't see those brood diseases like chalk brood over a decade now. His bees deformed wing virus is not even visible. I'm sure it's in the hives but the wings don't get deformed. You have so much work ahead of you to do.. I'm glad it's not me. I'm more in inventing new methods for keeping them in droughts and long dearth

Very enjoyable. Great information.

Guys don't get it wrong.. l'm in Croatia, right in the middle of it. Carniolan queens are not very dark, like black. Actually they can be brown, gray and with tiger stripes. Just not yellow-orange and dark black. But their offspring are all grey. We call them "our gray bees". If l see some orange striped bees in the hive (very rare...) she is out of selection. No way l'm letting her drones fly...

Please turn on the subtitles

Some of my bees will fly at 40-45f, I guess that just what some northern bees do.

This is a great discussion, I really appreciate it James!

Okay, I guess I’ll watch a talk with my favorite beekeepers 😂😂😂

I really enjoyed this talk. I feel like anyone that raises queens should always be putting them under selection pressure. In the cannabis genetics industry, they call people that don't put their work through selection pressure "pollen chuckers" which is super irresponsible

when was this recorded? date?

Really enjoyed this. There was a lot of great information here. Thanks for putting this out!

John ,this year 2024, the solstice is on June 20th. Would there be any advantage to removing the queen and notching frames on say June 5th? She would emerge around the 20th and possibly be mated and laying by the first of July. Or is it better to notch on July 1st?

In your eg 1 in 10 of your colonies is loaded with mites. Would you be treat all your colonies in that apiary as a result of your findings in 1 colony. Currently this is required in Australia atm. We are learning from you here.

I’ve been following a wide range of excellent beekeepers from the northern hemisphere for many years and your presentation has really confirmed what I’ve read and learnt about early detection and early treatments especially drone removal and there are a number of different methods of doing it but it can be done with due diligence from the beekeeper.

Great video ❤

The only packages I can find in Minnesota are all shipped from California 😢

10 year beekeeper: I never treated my bees for anything. First few years I might have 50% to 60% losses. I only breed the survivors. Now I'm at about 15% - 20% losses. I did become better at beekeeping, but I am convinced the genetics have been getting better over time as well. Haven't bought bees since about 2018.

Not good info for me in PA. Long drawn out useless info . Just saying good luck.😊

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Where can be get the sensors mentioned in the video for temperature and humidity reading?

In which order does he carry out the following work? - Rearing the larvae in the plastic cells - Removing the finished queen cells from the queen rearing box to place them in mating nucs - Removing the empty combs from the queen rearing box to place them in the mating nests - Removing brood combs from the mating nest for queen rearing systems? Or does he go back and forth and open the hives several times?

When commercial queen breeders produce queens with the genetics to resist varroa, hobbyists will be able to be not-very-good beekeepers again.