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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. Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. Baltic (absolutely freezing!) - A word guaranteed to be uttered at least once a day by every person in Scotland from October to March. “It’s baltic out there!”. Only 20% of the mites survived one week under in vitro conditions, even on a 100% fat body diet. In contrast, mites fed haemolymph alone died within 48 hours. This poor level of survival was surprising and suggests other essential components of the diet were probably missing.

When you’re writing comedy, it’s like threading a needle. You’re trying to find something funny in a particular kind of person. But sometimes … we originally ran a sketch in Chewin’ The Fat where a guy sat with his wife and a friend – him berating his wife, the friend getting increasingly embarrassed. Ex-Celtic star Victor Wanyama refuses to rule out stunning return to Parkhead one day as Spurs ace raves about time at Hoops A little over a year ago reports started to circulate of a study showing that Varroa feed on the fat body of bees rather than on haemolymph.Two results suggest that fat body was beneficial or essential to the mites. Firstly, only mites that had 50% or more fat body in the diet survived for 7 days. Secondly, there was a dose response to the amount of fat body in the diet and fecundity. Mites on a 100% fat body diet exhibited 40% fecundity, the highest level observed in the study. What can we conclude from the Ramsey study 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! The row came after a customer complained that hearing the song on a loop while she was on hold was driving her around the bend.

Miller H Caldwell has led a full life where it seems one event has led to another. He served the Society of Authors on their committee and was their events manager. He has previously published 32 books, amongst others, The Trials of Sally Dunning (Matador), and Penned Poetry for Parkinson’s Research (City Stone Publishers), which he was diagnosed with in 2021. Two books, A Lingering Crime and Caught in a Cold War Trap both have Los Angeles Film Scripts. He now lives in Dumfries, Scotland. Gonnae No Dae That prize draw 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.Other published studies have shown reasonable survival of Varroa for at least 3 days, with at least one report of mites surviving on flowers for up to 7 days. I’m also aware that other laboratories can maintain mites in vitro for longer than 7 days without using any honey bee-derived components in the diet. Hang on … what is the fat body anyway? I think this study is significant for the beekeeper for two reasons – the first will only be relevant if and when lipophilic miticides are developed, the second matters right now. Strategies are being developed to add highly specific miticides to the diet of bees which are then delivered to Varroa when the mite feeds. To date, these have been rather underwhelming in their performance. If Ramsey is right, modification of these miticides to make them lipophilic (like the Nile red fluorphore) will concentrate them in precisely the right place to ensure the mites get a lethal dose.

It doesn’t bother me in the least. In the early 90s when Ford and I started our act in Glasgow, we were consciously against ‘end of the pier’ humour. We decided then not to do a comedy of hate or exclusion or othering people. So it’s natural progress for me. 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.”This paper has been discussed online as a ‘game changer’. That’s probably a bit strong. Whilst the fluorescent stain uptake study is reasonably convincing it must be remembered that it was conducted on adult bees. Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse. To prevent mites that feed on fat bodies from damaging vitellogenin production miticides have to be used early enough to protect the winter bees.

Historically this was the accepted dogma. However, the experimental data supporting this conclusion – based upon labelling bees with radioactive isotopes and seeing what the mites acquired after feeding – was really not definitive. The experiments had been done in the 1970’s and the specificity of the labelling was a bit dubious. In addition, during the intervening period scientists had determined that, unlike vertebrate blood which is rich in cells and nutrients 1, haemolymph has little of either and is actually a pretty lousy food source. 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! The feeding position study is essentially correlative, but there could be other interpretations of the data. For example, that location on the bee might be the least accessible to a ‘grooming’ bee. Perhaps it’s a survival mechanism? The fat body is multi-functional. It has been compared to the vertebrate liver and adipose tissue. It acts as a major organ for nutrient storage, energy metabolism and detoxification of things like pesticides.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.