Dear friends, beekeepers and non
today (March 27, 2010) have been made to control a beehive of a friend of mine who can not take care of him for family reasons. Hives, about fifty, are all SpazioMussi since spring 2009, are heavily populated and require the supers. In a particularly sore after the placement of a diaphragm, I found a whole honeycomb natural male brood capped.
What better opportunity to control the presence of varroa? So I cut two squares that I brood uncapping and emptied in search of honey. With the help of my partner, Leonardo Parisi Marettimo, I photographed the operations (see photo attached) and after having carefully searched , I found a mite .
L and two pieces of honeycomb are the size of about four inches each side that is 100 cm = 200 square inches of brood male relative to the size of the honeycomb 30 x 40 cm = 1200 cm squares means one-sixth of the total area. This means that statistically in all cells of the honeycomb facade there may be six varroa and then, in all about twelve cells of the honeycomb and honey.
But if instead of twelve there were one hundred and twelve, What would change? Nothing!
The fact no one can deny :
the and family are there, without any treatment, and are vegete and productive lives.
Sorry, but it is possible that the method works only in the province of Trapani? The method works, the question is, beekeepers work?
Sincerely
Vincenzo Print
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