Hallsberg bees in 2024 Hallsberg municipality has many treatment-free bees. In the first emerging center in the municipality, most bee colonies have been treatment-free for many years. The last ones became treatment-free a few years ago. At my center, the
Treatment-free beekeeping now Now that we have had treatment-free beekeeping for a number of years in our town of Hallsberg, the microbiome, the collection and mixture of microbes on and in the bees, has become healthier and supports the immune
Small cell bees are hygienic A research team at the University of Lublin, Poland, has been studying bees on small cells. One of the experiments concerns the clearance of dead capped brood (needle-killed pupae), a trait that is important for
Hallsberg annual conference 2023 In November 2023, the fifth annual conference on treatment-free/varroa-resistant bees was held in Hallsberg. The number of beekeepers with treatment-free bees is increasing in the Hallsberg area and elsewhere in Sweden. This time Dr. Melissa Oddie
Variations in the good ratings I have only seen a few isolated varroa mites, despite breaking apart a lot of drone brood. I have only seen occasional wing-damaged bees, then only in 1-2 colonies that had a large brood cluster
Treatment-free beekeeping On november 12, 2022, the 4th Annual Conference on resistance to the varroa mite was held in Hallsberg. The goal for us participating in these conferences is to be able to conduct a more trouble-free beekeeping without chemicals
Resistance conference in Hallsberg 12 Nov We who work with varroa resistance in Hallsberg and the surroundings will have our fourth annual conference on varroa resistance and treatment free beekeeping. Anyone who is interested is welcome! In previous years, there
Selection and no chemicals but a too close to treatment bees In 2019, Sibylle and Wolfgang bought 3 Elgon colonies from me. They were all treated for varroa with half a dose of thymol that year. Since then, they have
Finally! No treatment! One loss! I have had a long journey to achieve treatment-free bees. I’m obviously thinking of the varroa mite. In 1989, breeding material was retrieved in Kenya: https://www.beesource.com/threads/exploring-monticola-efforts-to-find-an-acceptable-varroa-resistant-honey-bee.365571/#post-1843973 It took until 2007 before the varroa mite was
Strong Varroa resistant bee colonies Some suggest that one important trait for varroa resistance is smaller brood nest and less brood rearing. That may be so for some stock resulting in lower growth rate of varroa mites. It’s also resulting