{"id":373,"date":"2007-04-07T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2007-04-07T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T04:05:35","slug":"we-have-the-mighty-mite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"We Have the Mighty Mite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have varroa.  I&#8217;ve been expecting it and now my hives have it.  Colleen (Leigh&#8217;s mom and my assistant bee keeper)and I did the &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; test of all the hive today and in one of them found two mites in one hive.  It just means its here.   The &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; means taking about 300 bees from a hive, putting them in a mason jar, coating them in icing sugar rolling the jar and then shaking out the icing sugar.  I inspect the sugar through one of my microscopes.   As soon as I can figure out my passwords I&#8217;ll post a couple pictures I took down the tube of the microscope.  Its far from the end of the world.  On a brighter note I have a NASTY head cold.  <\/p>\n<p>Hope you are all having a nice easter weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have varroa. I&#8217;ve been expecting it and now my hives have it. Colleen (Leigh&#8217;s mom and my assistant bee keeper)and I did the &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; test of all the hive today and in one of them found two mites in one hive. It just means its here. The &#8220;sugar roll&#8221; means taking about 300&#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\/373"}],"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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}