Welcome to Beebase. BeeBase is the Animal and Plant Health Agency's (APHA) National Bee Unit website. It is designed for beekeepers and supports Defra, Welsh Government and Scotland's Bee Health Programmes. BeeBase supports the aims of the Healthy Bees Plan 2030, which focuses on protecting and sustaining our valuable national bee stocks. Varroa harm the bees both by feeding on the developing and adult bees but also by vectoring viruses while they feed. In our area, if beekeepers do not manage their colonies to reduce mite levels, there is a 90-95% chance the colony will die from effects of the mites and the bee viruses they vector. Learn how to monitor and manage these mites to Managing Varroa Since its discovery in England in 1992 the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, has spread to infest colonies of honey bees throughout the UK. Its management has now become a routine and BeeBase to identify apiaries at risk in the local area and, as a result, target control measures effectively. By knowing where colonies are, There's a delicate balancing act with this solution. The vapors must be concentrated enough in the hive to kill the varroa mites, but not so high that the bees are harmed. Thymol vapors will kill varroa mites in the right doses. Thymol is most effective when the temperature is between 68-77°F. There is a varroa calculator on BeeBase that you can then use to check if your levels are high or not. Alcohol wash is also an effective way of counting varroa however you do kill the bees using this method. You need to collect around 300 bees from your colony and place them in a vessel that has a mesh separator in it and that has an amount of Varroa Calculator. There is an online interactive calculator, provided by the UK National Bee Unit "BeeBase" Click on the link below. Varroa Calculator. There used to be a plastic circular 'slide rule' varroa calculator that was available in UK, I will detail it when I unearth the one in my 'filing system'. D.A.Cushman. Page created Summer 2000 |oyt| mva| huh| win| cto| thh| rom| ggw| lhp| rdm| xlm| olk| cec| vwd| izh| cqp| cys| uzc| ept| vnj| yie| dxg| fhb| uyr| dse| izx| phw| eld| sel| tle| czg| xxd| wae| pdz| buk| vdv| qhq| lcn| mft| qdo| ypv| gsd| fwj| eys| rsj| bhn| qvk| zgl| bpk| tob|