The Honey Bee Solution to Varroa by Steve Riley Queen Rearing knowledge of sustainable beekeeping with

knowledge of sustainable beekeeping with healthy bees and a good honey yield without any unnecessary effort

Since varroa arrived in Europe and America in the 1980s

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Jay explains 5 reasons for his belief that we can be optimistic about the world of honeybees and other pollinators – he calls them Beeoptimism

The book argues for an interspecies alliance of small-scale farmers

The Honey Bee Solution to Varroa by Steve Riley Queen Rearing knowledge of sustainable beekeeping with"This remarkable book presents a practical, chemical treatment free, solution to the Varroa problem. The author explains that in colonies that are surviving without treatments, the workers are controlling Varroa not by killing the adult mites, but by detecting and chewing out mite infested brood cells to interrupt the mites' reproduction. This book is a first rate guide on how to identify mite resistant colonies using simple tools: open mesh screens