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Bees in winter – the bottleneck for survival

By Claudia Garrido / 2 December 2022

I often get the question “what do you do with the bees in winter?”. People assume that I have a […]

In the past years, I’ve often thought that many problems would at least be smaller if people had more knowledge,

When it comes to varroa treatments, there’s apparently a gap between theory and practice. A sentence I often hear: “When

By Claudia Garrido / 13 November 2021

Oxalic acid treatments against varroa mites are both efficient against the parasite as well safe for the bee colonies. Efficiency

Honey bee viruses didn’t seem to be a major issue for a long time. At least, they weren’t in the

By Claudia Garrido / 14 February 2020

The finding that engineered bacteria could help against varroa and the Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) made a big buzz. These

By Claudia Garrido / 17 January 2020

Varroa treatments arrived in crime. In a double sense, just bear with me for a while. In a crime series