Contents COLONY COLLAPSE REDUX?. 1 A SIDE NOTE ON RECENT COLONY COLLAPSES. 2 WASTED YEARS. 3 NOVEL HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIPS. 3 BREEDING MAY BE SIMPLE, OR MORE COMPLICATED.. 4 SELECTING FOR TOLERANCE OR RESISTANCE?. 4 HOW DOES VARROA’S NATIVE HOST DEAL WITH THE MITE?. 5 SOCIAL APOPTOSIS. 6 RE-EVALUATING SELECTIVE BREEDING STRATEGIES. 6 PROGRAMS SELECTING FOR […] The post Selective Breeding for Mite Resistance: Part 1 appeared first on Scientific Beekeeping.| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents SYNTHETIC MITICIDES. 2 BIOPESTICIDES. 3 PEST RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT. 4 SHIFTING TO “NATURAL” TREATMENTS. 5 MONITORING THE DEGREE OF MITE INFESTATION.. 6 TREATMENT THRESHOLDS. 7 PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL, AND BIOTECHNICAL METHODS. 10 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. 13 BIOLOGICALLY RESISTANT STOCK. 14 NOTES AND CITATIONS. 15 The Shift Toward Bioacaricides Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First Published […]| Scientific Beekeeping
Research and articles about beekeeping by Randy Oliver, an author in the American Bee Journal.| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents Oxalic Strips (OAE) 1 Fig. 1 The bees shifted brood rearing away from the strips. 4 Extended-Release Thymol 4 Conditions During the Trial 7 A Note on Our Mite Wash System.. 8 Results and Discussion. 10 Acknowledgements. 12 Citations and Notes. 12 A Trial of Some Summer Treatments Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First published in […] The post A Trial of Some Summer Treatments appeared first on Scientific Beekeeping.| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents Feeding Thymol for Varroa Control 1 Setup. 2 Results. 8 Discussion. 10 Consumption/Removal of the Tablets. 11 Confirmation of Consumption. 12 Conclusions. 19 Acknowledgements. 20 Citations and Notes. 20 A Field Test of Apitablets Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First published in ABJ April 2025 I’m often asked by developers of new items for beekeepers, […]| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents Professional Beekeeping 2 The Beginning of a Boom 3 Indicators of Change 4 The Four Booms, Sprees, and Joyrides that We’ve Been Enjoying 5 I’ll Go Over Each of the Above in Turn, and Point out Early Indicators and Preparation. 6 The Demand for Bees for Almond Pollination 6 Early Indicators and Preparation 8 […] The post Is Our Party Winding Down appeared first on Scientific Beekeeping.| Scientific Beekeeping
Smokin’-Hot Mite Washin’ 2025 Update Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com For large scale varroa monitoring, notably for the selective breeding of mite-resistant bees, one needs to be able to assess the mite infestation rates of large numbers of colonies quickly and inexpensively. Variation in Mite Counts In any group of hives, even those from the same […] The post Smokin’ Hot Mite Washin’- 2025 Update appeared first on Scientific Beekeeping.| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents An Unsuccessful Attempt to Create Robbing Field Observations of the Guards Behind Robbing Screens How Colonies Guard Themselves against Foreign Bees The Behavior of Guard Bees My Conclusions Next Month Acknowledgements Citations and Notes Robbing Screens Part 8: Do They Work in Concert with the Guard Bees? Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First Published in ABJ […] The post Robbing Screens: Part 8– Do They Work in Concert with Guard Bees appeared first on Sci...| Scientific Beekeeping
Robbing Screens Part 9: Designing a Robbing Screen that Works in Conjunction with the Colony’s Guard Bees Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First published in ABJ March 2025 The defenders of a colony against robbing are its resident guard force. Do the current designs of robbing screens help or hinder those guard bees? Robbing Starts […]| Scientific Beekeeping
Honey Cleanup without Robbing Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First Published in ABJ September 2023 I’m often asked how to “clean up” the honey in cut-out burr or volunteer combs, spilled honey, sticky extracted combs, or other honey that we’d like to recycle back into hives — without initiating robbing and the potential transfer of […]| Scientific Beekeeping
Here’s a video of hiving a swarm by placing a nuc box next to it: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hwi8ts8r83dj5u0x1g6bs/swarm-pu-in-nuc-box.mp4?rlkey=009xao2f6nqg283zn17id39zb&dl=0| Scientific Beekeeping
