varroa mite – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:37:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 varroa mite – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Treatment-Free Beekeeping and the Varroa Mite https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-varroa-mite/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-varroa-mite/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:56:29 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3404 The Varroa mite is a Pandora’s box that humans will never be able to close. They are here to stay and they aren’t going anywhere despite all our efforts to treat them away. According to USDA’s Report on Honey Bee Health (PDF), published in 2012, the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, remains the single most detrimental […]

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