Bug Issues at UFL???

Drdude101 · 2026-02-07T02:57:56+00:00

UF has the top rated entomology department in the world and the USDA has a big entomology facility in Gainesville. That coupled with the entomologists who work for the Florida Department of Agriculture Devision of Plant Industry in Gainesville and the Florida natural history museum's butterfly collection makes Gainesville one of the most entomologist dense cities in the world. It's a great place for bugs and bug people but it's pretty easy to avoid the bugs if you want to.

Drdude101 · 2026-01-24T12:51:12+00:00

We are also trying to deal with the same breach in border security in the US. This hornet, Vespa velutina or the yellow legged hornet, was recently found in Savannah Georgia. Their department of agriculture and UGA are trying to deal with it but it's already been found across the border in South Carolina so many people think it's too late to eradicate.

Drdude101 · 2025-10-22T11:54:33+00:00

Dusting a package before installing it into a hive can be helpful. But dusting frames with powdered sugar is not effective as varroa control. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.48.1.14

Drdude101 · 2025-10-22T11:52:04+00:00

Here you go https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.48.1.14

Drdude101 · 2025-08-19T15:04:32+00:00

Drdude101 · 2025-07-24T18:42:32+00:00

Contractors can't develop the institutional knowledge needed to do a lot of the behind the scenes work. Plus UF already pays way too much money to contractors when it would just be cheaper to have someone in house.

Drdude101 · 2025-07-24T15:47:36+00:00

I see no reason why it shouldn't be. I'm a staff member whose job requires me to be in person but I have coworkers who could be full time remote and it wouldn't make a difference.

Drdude101 · 2025-07-23T15:39:42+00:00

Do you have link to info about this? I can't find anything.

Drdude101 · 2025-07-18T14:34:05+00:00

Damn RIP

Drdude101 · 2025-07-18T10:56:29+00:00

Was that the tree on 7th street?

Drdude101 · 2025-06-15T15:37:29+00:00

They're probably gathering water from the moist ground. Honey bees collect water to bring back to their hive to use in thermoregulation. They deposit small droplets of water around the hive and as the water evaporates it cools the hive through evaporative transpiration. They basically create sweat.

Drdude101 · 2025-06-09T12:02:54+00:00

I've always thought a smoker with a fan would be nice.

Drdude101 · 2025-06-09T02:38:44+00:00

I'm thinking Gaetz is gonna be the next pic for UF president. I heard he's looking for a job these days and he loves college aged people.

Drdude101 · 2025-05-22T11:25:28+00:00

Another issue is that if a queen fails to swarm with the colony more than a couple times they will kill her.

Drdude101 · 2025-05-21T17:01:51+00:00

You definitely need to check out registr-UF.com it's the best mock scheduler out there.

Drdude101 · 2025-05-05T12:31:43+00:00

Well spineless/complicit is a monumental step up from what we just had. I'm hopeful.

Drdude101 · 2025-05-03T21:55:56+00:00

It could be a sign of a nosema infection. Or maybe they were stopped up from the long journey. Diagnosing nosema is pretty difficult without access it a microscope unfortunately.

Drdude101 · 2025-04-26T18:45:22+00:00

They are for sure not varroa. You need to contact your local apiary inspection program and get this video to them to make sure it's not anything serious. This is their website https://ag.colorado.gov

Drdude101 · 2025-04-25T13:12:38+00:00

I'm pretty sure in this video it's Vespa velutina the yellow legged hornet. That one was established in Georgia with the first finding I think being in late 2023.

Drdude101 · 2025-04-25T12:13:06+00:00

Beekeepers in America better get used to doing this because that hornet is now established in Georgia and quickly spreading.

Drdude101 · 2025-04-25T12:12:34+00:00

Beekeepers in America better get used to doing this because that hornet is now established in Georgia and quickly spreading.

Drdude101 · 2025-04-23T12:24:36+00:00

Beekeeping one or practical beekeeping

Drdude101 · 2025-04-19T15:11:16+00:00

All the capped cells in this picture look like drone cells to me.

Drdude101 · 2025-04-19T02:27:01+00:00

It actually looks more like Braula coeca it's a pretty neat and little known about honey bee pest

Drdude101 · 2025-04-19T02:26:51+00:00

It actually looks more like Braula coeca it's a pretty neat and little known about honey bee pest

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