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The Learning Curve – Part 1: 2009 Progress Report 22 Feb 2011 | 12:05 pm
Randy Oliver Physicist Neils Bohr once quipped, “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” This definition clearly excludes me from being any sort o...
Powdered sugar dusting – sweet and safe, but does it really work? Part 3 21 Feb 2011 | 02:00 pm
By Randy Oliver Scientific inquiry can be exciting yet exasperating, satisfying yet frustrating! On these pages I share my own voyage of discovery, and enjoy the liberty of avoiding scientific formali...
The Learning Curve – Part 5: The Future 21 Feb 2011 | 02:00 pm
Randy Oliver “I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” – George Burns Miticides in Development There are a number of new varroacides currently in development ...
The Learning Curve – Part 4: The Synthetic Miticides 21 Feb 2011 | 01:30 pm
Randy Oliver Paradise Lost The overall impact of the varroa mite upon beekeeping was recently brought home when I spent time with beekeepers on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Until recently, these lucky b...
Powdered sugar dusting – sweet and safe, but does it really work? Part 2 21 Feb 2011 | 01:00 pm
By Randy Oliver One beauty of science is that it is anti-authoritarian. Physicist Lawrence Krauss put it well: “There are no scientific authorities. There are scientific experts, but there should be n...
The Learning Curve – Part 3: The Natural Miticides 21 Feb 2011 | 01:00 pm
Randy Oliver “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”—Charles Darwin. And changes have been th...
Powdered sugar dusting – sweet and safe, but does it really work? Part 1 21 Feb 2011 | 12:00 pm
By Randy Oliver The dusting of colonies with powdered sugar as a means of varroa control has become quite popular with hobbyists. Unfortunately, there is precious little published data in support of i...
Trial of HoneySuperCell® Small Cell Combs 18 Feb 2011 | 06:47 pm
Randy Oliver Introduction There has been considerable discussion as to whether “small cell” foundation (4.9mm diameter vs. the industry “standard” of approximately 5.4mm) has potential as a means of c...
Miticides 2011 16 Feb 2011 | 02:52 pm
Colony health and production these days is largely a function of varroa levels in the hives—the more mites, the more problems. It is no longer a matter of simply knocking the mites back once a year wi...
Announcements 25 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am
Field sessions I will be offering the last formal field session this coming Saturday April 28–from 10 am ’til noon. Location–at my home at 14744 Meadow Dr., GV. Please bring a veil, smoker, and hive ...
