{"id":304,"date":"2006-06-30T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T22:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2006-06-30T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T22:24:25","slug":"varroa-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Varroa Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I attempted the &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; method of testing for varroa mite infestation of my hives.  After carefull rolling, shaking and peering under my microscope &#8230;.no mites were found.  Today the official testeds for Agriquality are testing my hives using a miticide and stickyboards.  We&#8217;ll see tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>On a sad note Leigh lost one of her favorite ducks.  Saffron succumbed to old age yesterday.  We&#8217;re all very sad as she was a good duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I attempted the &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; method of testing for varroa mite infestation of my hives. After carefull rolling, shaking and peering under my microscope &#8230;.no mites were found. Today the official testeds for Agriquality are testing my hives using a miticide and stickyboards. We&#8217;ll see tomorrow. On a sad note Leigh lost one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}