2019-2020 BIP Colony Loss Survey and Queen Bees

Two Bees in a Podcast

English - August 20, 2020 16:29 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB
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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Geoff Williams to discuss the 2020 Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) preliminary survey. Then Amy and Jamie talk about queen bees. Q&A includes: when removing supers, should burr comb be melted and applied to frames to encourage honey bees to building in that super? What are “zom-bees”? I heard foundationless frames made smaller worker bees, which led to less Varroa. Is this true?