Greetings NOPBA Beekeepers -
Coming up this Wednesday evening, June 23, at 6:30pm, please join us for Rex Roberton (Vice President, NOPBA) presenting the successful results of his work involving an alternative Varroa management strategy. His presentation will be presented on ZOOM, and will be recorded.
Rex has been studying and experimenting with the summer brood break and trapping comb methods that have been used in Europe for many years to control varroa mites and has closely followed the research of Dr. Ralph Büchler at the Bee Institute in Kirchhain, Germany.
In April 2020, Rex was granted an Experimental Use Permit from the Washington State Department of Agriculture, Pesticide Management Division, and did several research projects on the use of oxalic acid extended-release based on the research that Randy Oliver has been doing for the last five years.
In this presentation, Rex will speak about one of the research projects he did with the Experimental Use Permit which combined extended-release oxalic acid with a Varroa trapping comb brood break.
Topic: Extended Release Oxalic Acid Combined with an Induced Brood Break
Time: Wednesday Evening, June 23, 2021 06:30 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89711921845?pwd=RXg2dGxjbHhwWU9TVUxUdVowTXZYUT09
Meeting ID: 897 1192 1845
Passcode: 154262
Reference Material:
A. Uzunov, R. Büchler (2020): Handbook, Alternative Methods for Varroa Control in Honey Bee Colonies, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
R. Büchler, A. Uzunov, et.al (2020): Summer brood interruption as integrated management strategy for effective Varroa control in Europe, Journal of Apicultural Research, DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2020.1793278
Sustainable Varroa Management, Part 3 of 4, National Honey Show video, R. Büchler
Rex Roberton is a member of the North Olympic Peninsula Beekeepers Association where he has been an officer for the last three years. He is currently participating in the Journeyman Program with the Washington State Beekeepers Association. Rex kept bees back in the 1970s when he was farming and ranching with his father in Northeastern Montana and has recently returned to beekeeping and manages an apiary which currently has 14 colonies. Rex has been practicing organic gardening for over 45 years and presently has a one-acre homestead in the foothills above Port Angeles, Washington, where he has a vegetable garden, apple trees, various berries, and 70 blueberry plants consisting of 25 different cultivars. He also uses organic and bio-technical methods in managing his apiary.
Thanks Everyone,
Greg