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Conference on treatment-free bees, November 15

Conference on treatment-free bees, November 15

Varroa Resistance Conference Nov 15 When I stopped treating the first colony for varroa 10 years ago, it was exciting to see how it would fare over the winter. No treatment, no drone brood removal. Equally exciting was the coming

Erik October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 Breeding, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Management, Microbiome, Treatment free, Varroa level, Varroa resistance Read more

Varroa resistance is easier

Varroa resistance is easier

Varroa resistance conference 2024 For the scientist, varroa resistance is complicated – for the beekeeper it is simple For many years, we in Hallsberg have worked to develop varroa resistant/treatment free bees. 9 years ago, the first bee colonies became

Erik January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 Breeding, Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Treatment free, Varroa reinvasion, Varroa resistance Read more

Annual Treatment Free Conference November 9

Annual Treatment Free Conference November 9

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

Erik October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 Breeding, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Overwintering, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Starting treatment-free/varroa resistant beekeeping now without breeding efforts

Starting treatment-free/varroa resistant beekeeping now without breeding efforts

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

Erik March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Breeding, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Microbiome, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Hygienic bees

Hygienic bees

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

Erik February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Varroa level, Varroa resistance Read more

Varroa resistance conference

Varroa resistance conference

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

Erik December 23, 2023December 26, 2023 Breeding, Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Fourth season without varroa control

Fourth season without varroa control

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

Erik June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 Breeding, Elgon, Featured, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Conference on varroa resistance

<strong>Conference on varroa resistance</strong>

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

Erik December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Breeding, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Management, Microbiom, Treatment free, Varroa resistance, Virus Read more

Experiences with varroa-resistant bees

Experiences with varroa-resistant bees

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

Erik October 29, 2022October 29, 2022 Breeding, Elgon, Featured, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

More treatment free Elgon bees

More treatment free Elgon bees

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

Erik April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Breeding, Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Featured, Overwintering, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more
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