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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10812" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I will absolutely be there John.</p><p>Most of the science I do is observational science and I have seen varoa and its effects getting worse every year since we have had it. I may be wrong but I don't think most bee scientists or anyone from MPI realise just how precarious bee health is at the moment. I have up till now coped I think pretty well with varoa but this autumn the effects have been devastating. Some of my hives are fine, a few have died and a hell of a lot have had huge losses in bee numbers usually between 50 and 75%. In some of the badly affected apiarys all the highs would be under 25% of the strength I would expect them to be. I initially thought it was resistance but monitoring showed few mites. The hives however continued to show some PMS and deformed wings virus and only started to recover two months after the treatments went in.</p><p>Like I said this hasn't affected every hive and a friend of mine who had very similar symptoms last year has not had any problems this year. All I know is that somebody needs to look at this and if it keeps going or gets worse then beekeeping will not be sustainable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 10812, member: 207"] I will absolutely be there John. Most of the science I do is observational science and I have seen varoa and its effects getting worse every year since we have had it. I may be wrong but I don't think most bee scientists or anyone from MPI realise just how precarious bee health is at the moment. I have up till now coped I think pretty well with varoa but this autumn the effects have been devastating. Some of my hives are fine, a few have died and a hell of a lot have had huge losses in bee numbers usually between 50 and 75%. In some of the badly affected apiarys all the highs would be under 25% of the strength I would expect them to be. I initially thought it was resistance but monitoring showed few mites. The hives however continued to show some PMS and deformed wings virus and only started to recover two months after the treatments went in. Like I said this hasn't affected every hive and a friend of mine who had very similar symptoms last year has not had any problems this year. All I know is that somebody needs to look at this and if it keeps going or gets worse then beekeeping will not be sustainable. [/QUOTE]
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