Image: Travel online (2025) Alan Wade Keith Garvey (1981) tells us how his Uncle Harry despatched an Australian bush tick: I hurls the rum bottle and hits it [the tick] in the left eye, and slows it […]
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 […]
The Giant Jam Sandwich Alan Wade With keepers of bees transfixed by theVarroa problem where are we fifty years on? Of course you remember the last time you visited Itching Down.i I know because you […]
Tropilaelaps clareae Alan Wade An emerging mite problem What might we make of the many mites that seem never to appear on the beekeeper radar? Most are friends of the hive, in some estimates around […]
Alan Wade The mighty mites All this talk about honey bee mites and other honey bee pests taking an easy ride: ‘How and when were they discovered?’ And ‘how did they learn to hitch a […]