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Tuesday 13 May 2014

Varroa Destructor


What did you learn from the video about the varroa mite? What problems do they cause?  How are they trying to manage them?





14 comments:

  1. Charity Laga'aia13 May 2014 at 15:18

    i have learnt that varroa mites get onto the back of the bees and suck out their blood but they sometimes start with the baby bees that have not hatched yet after they start to multiply.

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  2. Charity Laga'aia13 May 2014 at 15:23

    i have also learnt that the varroa mite have originally came from asia....why did the mites come to us first instead of australia because australia is closer to them than us??

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  3. sophie downing13 May 2014 at 15:43

    I learnt in the video that a man called Jerry is trying to stop the mites killing the bees, if the mites kill all the bees we will all starve in five years and they are trying to manage it by putting paper strips into the hives.

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  4. jessie matauli13 May 2014 at 16:40

    they are dangerous and they suck your blood .

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  5. i learnt that there is a bug trying to kill all the bees/varroa mite and that if the bees get extinct we wouldnt be alive in 5 years

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  6. I learnt that the varroa mite is a pest and could kill bees and us because if they kill the bees and they become extinct- since they pollinate flowers and do other important things like that. If this happens we wouldn't be alive in 5 years.

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  7. I leant that the varroa mite jumps onto the bees back and it sucks the bees blood which kill the bees. if the mites kill all the bees we will only live for five years.

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  8. The varro mite is a dangrous pest that jumps onto the bees back and gets a ride into the hive. They suck the bees blood and multiply in the hive. I hope that the varro mites dont kill all the bees because if there is no bees we will die within 5 year.

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  9. Niamh Muldowney13 May 2014 at 18:07

    I learnt that the varroa mites sucks the bees blood and if the beekeepers don't do anything about it all of the bees will become extinct and we will die of starvation in 5 years time.

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  10. I learnt that the varroa mites jumos on the bees back and gets a ride to the hive and suck the bees blood and kils the lavay

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  11. Jacob.aukusitino14 May 2014 at 20:00

    What i learnt from the video was that the varroamite were trying to kill the bees but i learnt more about varromite at school than at the arataki honey farm

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  12. faustina wilson16 May 2014 at 12:42

    I learnt that varroa mites hopes on the bees back and suck their blood to death also I leant that if the mites take over the bees we will die of starvation with in 5 years, thats why we need to protect our bees and plant flowers that will last till winters over so our bees wouldn't run out of honey and us too.

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  13. the varroa mite kills the bees so if we don't do anything about it we all could die in 5 years

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  14. i learnt that the varroa mite has come from asia and has been brought to New zealand. the varroa mite has been killing our bees at the arataki honey farm and if the varroa mites keeps on killing our bees and breeding more we could die of starvation within 5 years thats why we need to protect our bees and plants so they can pollinate them. the sceinetist are trying to help slove how to get rid of them by using wax paper .

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