It seems that the varroa mite has won. Over the summer break two things happened, outbreaks of the mite were discovered outside the containment line (in fact close to me) and the maker of the best posion refused to pay to have their chemical registered as a bee-cide.\u00c2\u00a0They didn;t wat to be associated with killing honey bees.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Finally the decision was made last night to “control” the spread rather than go for erradication.\u00c2\u00a0 What does this mean for me?\u00c2\u00a0 Well it means that I’ll have to monitor the hives more closely (doing the sugar roll), treat the hives twice a year with a miticide strip (small extra cost) , and be prepared to lose 10-20% of my hives every year.\u00c2\u00a0 Thats not so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 The plus side is that with no wild hives there is no competition for nectar so bigger honey crops and that people will want managed hives for pollenation so fewer niggles from neighbours.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems that the varroa mite has won. Over the summer break two things happened, outbreaks of the mite were discovered outside the containment line (in fact close to me) and the maker of the best posion refused to pay to have their chemical registered as a bee-cide.\u00c2\u00a0They didn;t wat to be associated with killing…<\/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\/356"}],"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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}