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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: Aroc on April 08, 2018, 11:33:33 pm
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I?m assuming Bayer?s Varroa Gate never made it to market. I see ads talking about it from a couple years ago but never have seen any being sold.
Anyone know what happened?
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I cannot see where adding more poison inside our hives would actually help the bees.
A friend of mine designed a brush with a screen below it that is added to the entrance. She claims it knocks the mites off the bees as they pass through the brush. She has not tried to market it.
Jim
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"She claims it knocks the mites off the bees as they pass
through the brush"
As most may know I have been on this VD case maybe 7months
now Jim, yet despite reading literally thousands of posts, several
studies and probed hypotheticals put up, I am yet to come across
anything that constitutes a "cure" for all EHB anywhere.
As a very wide brush I reckon it is coming down to a biological
method to wipe the whole population of VD and VJ anywhere out.
Something I would not be part of easily... but for the greater good
(pollination) I am of the mind "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta
do". Sad as that is for the food chain, somewhere.
Bill
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I cannot see where adding more poison inside our hives would actually help the bees.
Nothing to worry about Jim we add to all our food. :rolleyes:
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Nothing to worry about Jim we add to all our food. :rolleyes:
Every time a person swallows saliva, they're dosing themselves with cyanide (as the thiocyanate) - the difference between a poison and a non-poison is one of dosage. Do you smoke or drink, eat convenience food with additives, burn gasoline or burn rubbish in the garden ? All sources of potential poisons ...
Having said that, can't say I approve much of using Bayer's products.
LJ
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the difference between a poison and a non-poison is one of dosage.
And accumulation. When the poison is not put in food you accumulate far less then if it is.
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I think the point that Jim is trying to make is that less is more. Breed bees that can take care of themselves because they have been doing it for thousands of years. I agree with MB's handling of his bees because the bees need to rely upon their natural methods of genetic selection. I bought bees from a local that treats his bees and tried to go treatment free gradually ( I was doing powder sugar shakes) and they died right after they started mass producing in the spring because of disease. Soon after I actually received a swarm from Jim. He does not treat and they have done fantastic. In fact I now have two hives and the original hive is probably going to end up 6-7 boxes high this year. That is after a couple splits.
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A good example is that as medicine improves for humans you are going to start seeing longer life expectancy which appears better in the interim. but that also means that weaker people will replicate and by the time that something like the Spanish influenza comes around ( it wiped out a 1/3 of the world's population) it will do far more damage to the existing population. Because even though we have fantastic technology and medical advancement the shifts in viruses and bacteria that cause illness are still superior just like our immune system and genetic selection is still superior.
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A good example is that as medicine improves for humans you are going to start seeing longer life expectancy which appears better in the interim. but that also means that weaker people will replicate and by the time that something like the Spanish influenza comes around ( it wiped out a 1/3 of the world's population) it will do far more damage to the existing population. Because even though we have fantastic technology and medical advancement the shifts in viruses and bacteria that cause illness are still superior just like our immune system and genetic selection is still superior.
As genetic selection may overcome some we humans are hellbent
on reversing those 'Improvements' [note use of single quotes] through
introducing new stresses to the improved model.
GE crops being just one example.
Bill
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[note use of single quotes]
Looks like improper English. :oops:
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Breed bees that can take care of themselves because they have been doing it for thousands of years.
Do you not see something contradictory within what you've written there ... ?
I agree with MB's handling of his bees because the bees need to rely upon their natural methods of genetic selection.
Again - natural selection is just that - Natural. i.e. without human involvement. Beekeeper selection is beekeeper-selection - which can't possibly be 'Natural'. It's a contradiction in terms.
Your argument about Spanish Flu is seriously flawed - it occurred in 1918, prior to the advent of antibiotics and anything resembling health-care. In those days if you became infected or otherwise fell ill - tough - you probably died. That's as close to human 'Natural Selection' as you can get - but did it stop the massive death toll of that disease ? No.
LJ