http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/12/devastating-mites-jump-nimbly-flowers-honeybees
The bahstahds!
English please.
I can read it. 😄
Well than translate it.
I would rather not get ticked off this site. 😳
Hmmm, must be derogatory. Maybe you should tell the moderator what it means and have it removed.
Sorry - I was trying to be funny; didn't intend to offend! :oops:
Quote from: tjc1 on April 22, 2017, 07:35:37 PM
The bahstahds!
I grew up in Randolph.......I certainly understand it.
Quote from: tjc1 on April 22, 2017, 10:09:17 PM
Sorry - I was trying to be funny; didn't intend to offend! :oops:
I think I figured it out now. Sorry for being so thick.
Quote from: tjc1 on April 22, 2017, 07:35:37 PM
The bahstahds!
This was funny.
Quote from: sawdstmakr on April 22, 2017, 09:00:45 PM
I would rather not get ticked off this site. 😳
And this was punny.
And the article ... mite be a little depressing.
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Kill the mites kill them all.
In a normal environment, how would the mite be in a flower?
Drops off one bee, waits for the next ride. Devious, these little devils
Not to be argumentative, but a mite on a nice warm bee body that is sucking the life off its host would have no reason to DROP OFF. :)
By that logic, we would never have to worry about getting head lice. Why would lice leave the warm head of one person to go to another person of to wait on a piece of furnature. They never do that, right.
Jim
Remember also that pollen collected from flowers has been shown to be contaminated with deformed wing virus (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0113448 (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0113448)) and that the virus is infectious for honey bees ... it's not just mites that the bees potentially pick up when outside the hive.
As an aside ... lazy shooter ... how good is the evidence that phoretic mites on foraging bees are feeding? Perhaps they're just hitching a lift, either waiting for access to a late-stage larva or to be dropped off at a plant to then attach to the next visiting bee?
Interesting that there is another foraging bee that gets DWV virus. Now it can spread from species to species by way of flowers.
Has anyone used the Bee Gym?