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Survival and fecundity in in vitro studies wasn’t great. However, in defence of the authors, fecundity of mites under natural conditions can be as low as 40% and is not higher than 80%. Not all mites have baby mites. Thankfully.

Whits Fur Ye’ll No Go By Ye (What's for you, won't go by you) - Didn’t get that job you wanted? Well, this phrase is guaranteed to lift your spirits just a wee bit and remind you that something better is just around the corner and it’ll find you when you’re ready. Positive Scottish vibes! In addition, and somewhat more circumstantially, Varroa control using chemotherapeutics fed to bees (and subsequently taken up by the mite during feeding) had been relatively disappointing. This new study reports three independent experiments that, together, indicate that Varroa actually feed on the fat body of bees, rather than on haemolymph. The paper is so-called ‘open access’, so anyone can access it and therefore I’ll just provide a synopsis of the important bits.

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Which is precisely the point I’ve made previously about treating early enough to protect winter bees. Vitellogenin made by and stored in the fat body reduces oxidative stress and is associated with extending the longevity of overwintering bees. The fat body also has critical roles in metamorphosis. If I don’t see you through the week (if I don’t see you soon) Made famous by Billy the window cleaner in the classic Scottish movie Gregory’s Girl “If I don’t see you through the week, I’ll see you through the windae”. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but it's a good way to say goodbye to someone. It was notable that the red stain predominantly accumulated in the rectum and gut of the mite (image O above). The authors conducted all sorts of controls to confirm that the stains actually stained what they were supposed to – you can view these in the paper. Babies! It could work, but it would probably be more difficult to develop and test. The miticides we currently use are pretty good when you compare toxicity to bees vs. toxicity to mites. The ‘readout’ is also straightforward … you just ‘count the corpses’ (bees and mites). To develop an inhibitor of feeding you’d have to work out a way to determine whether it was working or not … you could wait until the mites starved, but that would probably take a long time. An additional problem would be to ensure that pupae received enough during their larval feeding stage to make them unpalatable to the mites within the capped cells.

Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes pictured with Rangers-mad Brian Matthews at charity night as Glow star jokes he could be Gers target’s assistant at Ibrox Salt n’ Sauce (salt and chip shop sauce) - Everyone has to try a Scottish chippie (fish and chip shop) and if you’re getting one in Edinburgh make sure to ask for it with chippie sauce, a moreish blend of brown sauce sort of mixed with vinegar. Greg recalled another Chewin’ The Fat sketch which might well make the cutting floor in the future, for its use of the term “Jap’s eye” (slang, if you’re not aware, for the tip of a penis). “If you’re a young Japanese person living in Scotland watching this show, you’d react, WTF?!I watched that recently, and I felt uncomfortable – and I wrote it! You’re in your mid-20s and that’s what you’re on about. But if people said ‘this has aged badly’, now I’d shrug my shoulders and say fair enough.” A treatment schedule that includes treatment in late summer or early fall before mites can significantly damage fat body in developing winter bees would likely be more effective.