salvo
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« on: October 16, 2012, 05:12:50 PM » |
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Hi Folks,
Just finished my second summer as a beek.
Past few weeks I've noticed a very small, gray colored, oval shaped insect on the seams of my top and inner covers.
They are small enough that I may have missed them all along, or thier numbers were too small, but I'm noticing them now. Colonies seem to be unaffected by them,...so far. Hives have been/are in beating sun.
I'm assuming they're insects (six legged) as opposed to eight legged, as they are oval and move more like an insect, almost like a flea.
What kinda cootie could it bee?
I'm out tonight, so I'll check in later tonight.
Thank you.
Salvo
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kathyp
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 07:44:24 PM » |
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can you post a picture of your cooties?  |
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2012, 08:29:40 PM » |
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yeh, "Cootie Pics" are cool!...are they walkin around or just kinda sittin there?
your friend,
john
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salvo
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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2012, 08:49:37 PM » |
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I tried to get photos today. No luck. Camera couldn't focus on something so small. I tried to catch them. I crushed a few. Pointed ovals, apparently soft bodies, steady movement. They are only in my Carniolan hive. My mutts as well as my VSH are cootie free. Could they be a louse of some sort.    Thank you.  Salvo |
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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2012, 09:39:57 PM » |
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 you say they are small. are they the size of the end of a pin, the size of an ant...... http://www.indianahoney.org/small-hive-beetle.cfmlook like this?
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2012, 07:40:03 AM » |
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Yep Kathy, those are cooties, that is for sure. Who remembers the toy cooties when we were little kids?  ?? |
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salvo
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« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2012, 10:31:08 AM » |
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Thanks Folks,
I'm familiar with SHB and their larvae. I've got a few of them. I would descibe the beetle as a dark brown Lady Bug. My cooties are not larvae. Also familiar with waxmoth larvae and varroa. Varroa more rounded and darker. These things actually look more like that stuffed louse I posted.
Smaller than the head of a common pin, pointed oval, medium gray color.
I was even thinking "spring-tails", but my bugs don't go boing!
Thanks again,
Salvo
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2012, 10:38:15 AM » |
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Are there any on your bees? They sound like V mites.
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