All About Varroa Mites
The following post are about Varroa mites and mite management.
- Oxalic acid best practices: safely treat for varroa
- Opposing views of mite management: data vs date
- The mites are the same old mites
- Using oxalic acid vaporization when brood is present
- Bees head-down in cells: did they starve?
- Treat your bees, but hold the lithium
- Varroa mite seeking a taste of royal blood
- Why are my bees crawling in front of the hive?
- The lifestyles of wild and healthy honey bees
- “Let the mites be mites” is no longer an option
- Booklet review | Splits and Varroa
- It’s not about mites any more
- Varroa: a mite by any other name
- How to use oxalic acid & glycerin strips for varroa
- Varroa mite hitching a ride, staying alive
- Prevent resistance to miticides: rotate your treatments
- August is a critical time for mite management
- 7 common methods of varroa mite transmission
- Kairomones and honey bee parasites
- Are we obsessed with Varroa mites?
- Absconding bees or death by Varroa?
- Video: Oxalic acid trickling
- How to do an oxalic dribble, even on cold days
- Oxalic acid approved for Varroa mites
- Bee size, mites, and pesticides
- Monitoring mites with a sugar shake
- What is guanine?
- Comb honey: when to treat for mites
- Tips for using Stratiolaelaps scimitus
- Stratiolaelaps scimitus for Varroa control
- Braula coeca: devastating bee parasite makes a lousy companion
- The value of scientific inquiry
- Don’t miss the Varroa train
- Apivar vs ApiLife Var vs Apiguard
- Outwitting the mites
- The reason mites kill bees leaving a hive full of honey
- Why did they die?
- Varroa mites feeding on a sick honey bee
- Watch out for those mandibles! Honey bees bite!
- Hive humidity affects mite reproduction
- Once you understand mitekeeping, beekeeping is stupid simple
- Mite management in large hives
- Mite it bee the scutellum?
- A fight with the varroa mite in New Zealand
- A mason bee covered in hairy-footed pollen mites
- Of mites and men
- Feral colonies and the quick spread of varroa mites
- Hopping mad at HopGuard
- Monitoring mites with a sticky board
- Faster than the speed of mite
- Pesticide residues in brood comb
- Small cells do not control Varroa mites
- HopGuard: first impressions
- “Let the bees be bees” Really?
- Can powdered sugar control Varroa mites?
- Deformed wing virus
- What history tells us about hive design and ventilation
- A bit more about VSH
- Wednesday wordphile: hygienic behavioral disorder
- What is survivor stock?
- The perils of spring for bees
- Slatted racks: how should the slats be arranged?
- HopGuard section 18 approvals
- HopGuard: update
- Monday morning myth: small-cell foundation discourages Varroa mites
- Tropilaelaps clareae: another scary creature for bees
- Wednesday wordphile: phoresy
- Small but mighty: mites in the beehive
- HopGuard: the new Varroa pesticide
- Grease patties help control winter mites
- A day in the life: why do I do this?
- Varroa mites feed on honey bee hemolymph
- Reduce varroa mites by culling honey bee drones