The following are webpages useful for understanding varroa IPM. You may note that several countries are ahead of the U.S. Excellent U.K. manual on varroa IPM: DEFRA "Managing Varroa" I'm having trouble finding a current link New Zealand’s contribution—authors Goodwin and Van Eaton did a thorough job:
Good U.S. IPM for the Northeast by Nicholas Calderone: http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/B_files/varroa.htm One of the best European overviews (hard to find on the Internet!): Anonymous, FAIR CT97-3688. “Coordination in Europe of integrated control of Varroa mites in honey bee colonies.” 1999 Final Technical Report Appendix VI www.alp.admin.ch/themen/00502/00567/00573/index.html?lang=de Swiss 2003 IPM Plan www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/sanidad/varroa/alyternativa_control_varroa.pdf O.K., let’s not forget Canada: www.honeycouncil.ca/users/folder.asp?FolderID=5202 For Ontario http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/disease_2006.htm For Manitoba http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/honey/bha02s00.html Good IPM brochure from North Carolina www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/apiculture/PDF%20files/2.03.pdf Good reference book: Delaplane and Webster, eds. 2001 Mites of the Honey Bee. Dadant and Sons VarroaPop download: http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/soft/vpop/vpop.html Janet Brisson's website for screened bottoms, Morris Ostrofsky’s sugar dusting trial, powdered sugar info www.countryrubes.com |
