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Three Most Interesting Points:
1. Burning the hive and bees? That’s not treatment! That’s quarantine and systematic eradication. I never knew that you had to use such drastic measures as that. It seems so incredibly painful.
2. Rolling bees in sugar will help separate varroa mites from the bees.
3. You know, I always thought bears were pretty much the one “pest” to bees, mostly because Winnie the Pooh made me unwittingly root for him as he went around destroying hives and stealing honey. But it’s both alarming and fascinating to see how many predators bees and their hives have, from bears to ants to mice.
Question: What makes the mites fall off of bees when they’re rolled in sugar??
To Look For: Signs of illness: paralyzed bees, glossy or hairless bees, bee poop … etc.
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