picton farm
House Bee
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- Sep 26, 2010
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- Location
- NORFOLK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 70
Sorry about the fantastic headline but this seems too good to be true so i wanted to share.......
I was talking to an elderly beekeeper a few days ago and he told me his bees had for the last 3 years been removing all the early drone brood until May. After that they leave it alone. He also mentioned that he found the levels of varroa to be higher at the time they were doing the clear out and that subsequently the colonies seemed more or less free of mites.
Is it possible that the bees have worked out that there are a lot of mites in the drone brood and are removing them? Is this common?.......
.........Running for cover now.......ok safely in my bunker......open fire!
I was talking to an elderly beekeeper a few days ago and he told me his bees had for the last 3 years been removing all the early drone brood until May. After that they leave it alone. He also mentioned that he found the levels of varroa to be higher at the time they were doing the clear out and that subsequently the colonies seemed more or less free of mites.
Is it possible that the bees have worked out that there are a lot of mites in the drone brood and are removing them? Is this common?.......
.........Running for cover now.......ok safely in my bunker......open fire!
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