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- Varroa destrutor Control Experiment at Island Princess Farms in Hilo, Hawaii by Dennis vanEngelsdorp
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Dr. Jeff Pettis, Research Leader at the USDA, prepares to suit up for a Varroa control experiment being conducted at Island Princess Farms in Hilo, Hawaii. The hives you see in the panorama will be treated with various miticides in order to determine which has the greatest potential to control mite levels in honey bee...
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Dr. Jeff Pettis and Fabiana Ahumada-Segura talk over the logistics of the Varroa Control Experiment. There were 56 colonies included in the experiment at the apiary at Island Princess Farms in Hilo. This apiary was located in a Macademia Orchard on the outskirts of Pahala. 28 hives in this apiary were used in the Va...
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Scientist’s double check newly installed packages of honey bees, on a farm outside of Honolulu, HI, for survivorship and queen status. The honey bees were packaged in Pahala on the isle of Hawaii two days prior to this picture being taken. They were then shipped via air cargo to Honolulu where they where loaded ont...
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Image by Mike Andree. This image depicts our standard for sampling honey bee colonies in an apiary in North Dakota. Pink pollen traps have already been installed on three hives, can you spot them? Also be sure to look for the clear Nalgene bottles we use to take alcohol samples of honey bees. The sample bottles are ...
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