@hive-166168 @qwerrie

Instead of being so hateful with her for trying to bring awareness into a group that actually has relevancy on the matter, and for being so harsh on her for not being as scientific in that regards since she is learning the whole process from myself, could have been a little more gentle.

Anyway the mushroom we used was Ganoderma Reishi, since if you actually go and do research into Paul Stamets work, that is one of the mushrooms they have done studies with and which we had access to.

Ganoderma not only has many of the compounds necessary to activate those detox pathways, but it is a potent anti-viral for the honeybee, which is tremendously helpful, since the varroa mite they are dealing with does not generally kill a bee directly, but does so by weakening them & transmitting a wide range of diseases in the bee, such as crippling wing virus etc. Not only that but honeybees are said to have a lifespan of around 40 days, bees fed extracts of reishi for example have seen a doubling in their life expectancy, which is a crazy valuable discovery.

And for the one claiming mycelia has nothing to do with funghi speaks volumes about your knowledge of mushrooms & fungi, since the mycelia is the actual living organism, what grows above ground is just a fruit.

It is like telling her that apple trees have no relevance to apples.

Furthermore the observation he made that led to his discovery, happened by cultivating a mushroom patch in his garden of GIANT GARDEN MUSHROOMS, Stropharia rugosoannulata, where he observed that his honeybees would actually go to the patch, and start digging at the soil to expose the mycelia that were under the soil just to suck the juices at the root tips of the mycelia.

Also several varieties of Agaricus have been demonstrated to have similar potent effects as Reishi does & other polyspore mushrooms as well have these effects.

As a Fungi Lover at the very least I would have thought one of you would look up Paul Stamets work since he is a MYCOLOGIST, so I would presume that should be absolutely fascinating research for anyone to look into that claims to be a fungi lover.

I guess none of you are.

For those wishing to understand how we fed the mushroom you could have followed her link to my article on how we prepared the feed, but since everyone is lazy:
"We went about feeding our bees, we grew our own batch of Reishi, then made a strong extraction using the fruiting bodies, but ideally one would use the inoculated mycelial substrate as well, since the fruiting body has less of a concentration of those compounds apparently than the mycelia. We then added the extract to simple sugar water, adding small amounts of several aromatic herbs that are beneficial & attractive to bees, such as camellia, thyme, mint etc, we added these by boiling them into the water before adding the sugar & small amounts of the mushroom extract we prepared" A dose of 0.1& in solution of mushroom extract has been enough to provoke a very strong reaction in the bees in his studies, not much is needed. Furthermore the extraction of the fruiting body was done using a double extraction meaning I extracted the Reishi Mushroom by boiling in water & also by creating an alcoholic tincture, ie a dual extraction, then combined the both, since that way it won't spoil in storage once prepared, the small amounts of alcohol would evaporate anyways when added to our hot herbal tea as we mixed in the sugar. Ideally one could even do a triple extraction using water, alcohol & vinegar if one wanted to get alllll of the compounds and polysacharides out of the mushroom."
Having kept bees for several years, I had to watch several hives die & suffer unnecessarily, these 2 hives we tested this on, were utterly mind-blowing in strength, vitality, resiliency & were absolutely thriving.

Furthermore Bee's in the wild build their hives in rotting hollow tree logs, what is responsible for rotting wood? FUNGI. Well in such an environment they are not living only in a hive sealed with propolis but a hive that is literally the substrate of a wide range of fungi helping decompose the wood.

I leave you with some resources in case there is actually someone in this community that is really interested in Fungi as they claim.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89811-2
https://news.wsu.edu/2021/05/27/fungus-fights-mites-harm-honey-bees/