Joe Ibbertson: Free Living Bees, Solving the Varroa Problem
In his 15th season beekeeping Joe is a long term non treatment beekeeper. He has primarily used swarms from Free Living sources as his colonies. This has led him establishing a conservation project of Free Living colonies in woodland and urban areas local to him. He has developed a simplistic but effective method for tracking these colonies and works as a research partner with Prof Grace McCormack’s Galway Honey Bee Research Centre. In this lecture, Joe discusses the conservation project and its aims, delving into the survival and genetic data so far. His observation methods for survival and Varroa resistant behaviours in Free Living colonies are crucial to assessing Varroa resistance. He also discusses how he has removed interference of natural dynamics within his management, to work in tandem with the free living population and select for locally adapted, Varroa resistant colonies and his observations from this.
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