Alan Wade Parasites, in a phrase, are predators that eat prey in units of less than one. Tolerable parasites are those that have evolved to ensure their own survival and reproduction but at the same […]
Alan Wade Can colonies with two queens fend off Varroa better than single-queen colonies? Or because of the size of their broodnests will two-queeners be more vulnerable to mite infestation? These are important questions since there is […]
Alan Wade For the liberal minded chemistry student of the late 1960s – think mind blowing LSD – rye grass had a particular allure. Lysergic acid could be had by wicking a paddock rye grass wash – […]
Image: Travel online (2025) Alan Wade Keith Garvey (1981) tells us how his Uncle Harry made short work of a giant Australian bush tick: I hurls the rum bottle and hits it [the tick] in the left […]
Alan Wade Another mighty drone buster The pestilent mite has arrived to stay and, while not quite here in the Australian Capital Territory and many parts of New South Wales, it has been creeping down […]
Alan Wade A great treat Randy Oliver of Scientific Beekeeping fame advises that employing synthetic miticides to control Varroa is a most unwise endeavouri. Their use is either being abandoned, curtailed or, where they have failed to control mites completely, […]
Alan Wade Will there be a magic formulation, a practice or treatment, that will return us to pre Varroa` days. In reviewing weaknesses and strengths of the existing Varroa control measures, Rosenkranz, Aumeier and Ziegelmann […]
Alan Wade Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand;It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Isiah 13:6 At the turn of the millennium, Chandler and coworkersi set out to […]
Alan Wade The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,and with the haemorrhoids,and with the scab, and with the itch,whereof thou canst not be healed. Deuteronomy 28:2 There is considerable disquiet amongst natural […]
Bap the Baker Alan Wade Banging on for a Better Solution In Part I we surveyed the parlous state of bees and their keepers taken to their limit by the mighty mite. What we need […]