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Beekeeping => Pests and Diseases => Topic started by: Green bee on March 18, 2017, 09:02:46 am

Title: This can't be good
Post by: Green bee on March 18, 2017, 09:02:46 am

https://www.facebook.com/groups/55633188198/permalink/10154345600018199/

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: Perry on March 18, 2017, 10:01:21 am

I've heard about, but not much information is coming out yet.

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: Wandering Man on March 18, 2017, 11:04:45 am

I wonder if OAV or MAQS will work on these guys?

I hope we don't have to find out ...

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: efmesch on March 18, 2017, 03:14:48 pm

Can't give you a link just yet, (maybe I'll be able to find it) but I recall seeing and reading material on this particular mite---it was being recommended as a parasite of varroa mites and was being tested to help control them.  As I recall, it was supposed to be harmless to honeybees.

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: efmesch on March 18, 2017, 03:27:18 pm

Looks like I spoke up too soon----Just did some  Googling and only found negative references.  Perhaps the mite I'm thinking of was of a different species. 
Anybody else remember the referemces to a mite as a potential natural controlling agent of Varroa?

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: Wandering Man on March 18, 2017, 05:01:42 pm

Stratiolaelaps-scimitus?

https://brookfieldfarmhoney.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/mites-that-might-eat-mites/

http://www.evergreengrowers.com/stratiolaelaps-scimitus-womersley-hypoaspis.html

https://youtu.be/mgUB0E5MDbw

Or the Book Scorpion?

https://youtu.be/y1zdancXRDg

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: efmesch on March 18, 2017, 05:17:52 pm

Good work WM.  You found it.  Thanks.

Title: Re: This can't be good
Post by: rober on April 02, 2017, 08:41:56 am

http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/index.cfm?pageid=92
https://beeinformed.org/2013/09/04/tropilaelaps-mites-part-2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH53nZ7gYY4