At today's meeting, Fred gave us a tutorial on using Randy Oliver's (Scientific Beekeeping) Varroa model to predict Varroa populations over time, under different treatment scenarios. He entered the data for his treatments in 2018, as well as Jon Polcyn's and mine. According to the model, all three of our treatment methods should prevent our hives from crashing this winter due to Varroa. Nice to know. This model can be used as a tool to decide when to treat, and which treatments to use, to prevent losses due to Varroa (theoretically, but based on Randy's scientific inquiry). I am sending this Excel file to all of you because it was reported that it won't download from the Scientific Beekeeping site to all computers. Hopefully everyone that wants to use it can download it from this email attachment. Note that you must open it with Excel as it doesn't work with all spreadsheet programs (like "Sheets"). Thanks Fred for taking your time to figure out how this works, and for sharing that knowledge with all of us today. I know I will be using it to develop targeted treatments. (Notes from the meeting will be sent later.) Gerard
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
ECWBA NewsletterSince 2009 Archives
March 2019
|