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Not plugging the entranced post OA? Interesting. How many grams are you shooting in Phil?

Are you adding any water to the Oxalic to make it stick in the plunger?

Fasters those guns get less effective... went from 1 treatment with a wand getting 100% knock down to multiple treatments maybe 25% knock down with these fast machines.. bees just shoot up in the corner gas doesn't penetrate...wand can move it around moving the bees around getting 100% first time

I put up 30 halves for winnter this year the hurricane knocked me down to 20 but I haven't treated in 4 years bees have been doing good so far

Get those mites. That bazooka is quite the contraption. LOL

Looks a little Frosty Phil, don't worry Winter is on it's way. Blessed Days Phil...

Hey can you do a quick video on what conditions you want before pulling the trigger on moving them indoors. This will be our first year indoor wintering and havent much advice on prep and conditions both winter and spring.

They are broodless, right?

Go for it!

Good work of the operator! Why are the pupae on the bottom? Is there a problem with food?

Today it was 10 celsius in Alberta. I did a round of oxalic this afternoon. It seemed like too good an opportunity to miss.

High winter losses are to be expected. Everyone I know has had higher mite loads and is trying to get them down with OA including myself.

Some say Apivar, the nearest thing you can get to playing Russian roulette with a semiautomatic.

Forgot your mask :(

What do you think the reason is for the high mite loads? I missed a treatment due to warm temperatures which I ended up with high mite counts as well!

Well that is no fun, how did your levels get so high any idea what went side ways?

Oh shit that’s a guy punch, I can feel the stress. I hate this, What does this mean for the remainder?! Hop this was one of the only few trial test yards

Phil maybe we should start considering these slow release oxalic treatments during the honey flow.

3/4 of my 500 hives are in isolation, meaning I am the only beekeeper for 30 miles. The remaining hives are near a beekeeper who treats his 30 colonies once a year in the fall with OAV. I have to kill mites around him all summer, and I still see one or two colonies crash like in your video. The hives in isolation I use Apivar once a year, and counts remain low. My point is if we all don't kill mites equally, the bees and drones just reinfest each other. I have 5% winter loss, and he has 50%. My point is the guy who takes killing mites seriously, all his efforts are lost with a lazy beekeeper nearby. He markets his honey as keeping bees with organic practices.

It really sucks to be losing colonies like that. In hindsight do you have any thoughts what you would have done differently in treating for mites?

People that think you can let bees die and the remaining survivor stock will be the answer to mites have never experienced collapsing colonies like this. It’s devastating.

Thanks for video No reason to save those bees! Not only varroa issue.

Be nice if they could genetic modify a mite that's offspring was only male.

Haha he will indeed be a hero if he figure it out ! Thanks for the video Phil, we don't mind longer videos by the way 😅 I hope those broodless splits will compensate these losses next spring !

Hello Fill. Will you show me how many ticks you got?

Great videos Phil! If your OA is too dry to stay in the plunger (ie it drops out all the time), I have added a few drops of water to a new OA container, and that usually eliminates the problem

Love the dry humour Have you placed any stickies ?

You can’t beat Princess Auto’s return policy. Maybe you should have chosen the hyundai inverter they sell so that we can hear you when you are by the generator. (In your previous video I listened to the part where you were by the generator twice and I still couldn’t tell what you were saying)

Sweet toys I love it!

Thought you had a turbo! The mods on that older VM look sweet. Do you press the pellets?

Great video. I got the newer vaporizer . No generator. I use powdered oxalic acid with turkey baster to load. Slick slick slick.

Morning Phil, sounds like fun. Blessed Days...

Congratulations on your season Phil & family!

Thank you for sharing

Where are you located? It's a terrible summer for mites here in California.

What a brain dead wanker! 🤣🤣🤣

Just something to think about but Randy Oliver stated in one of his videos that he takes mite samples from frames that are next to the brood frames. Apparently, there is less mite count deviation by doing it that way, resulting in more accurate mite counts.

Have you checked to see how they are looking now? My later August splits are mostly a full box of bees now. Once the queens were accepted in the splits, I switched them into the spots where I had full sized production hives while doing the last honey pull (with fume boards) to boost them with the bulk bees. That seemed to really help speed up their brooding and help them get extra resources, but it would be way too much work without a hummerbee haha

So sometimes the percentage is higher if thraeted than if not treated ???

200 as a sample is redundant because what if the hive was big compared to small ones

I wonder what the sample numbers would be if you found a hive with high levels and made 20 or 30 samples from it how much would they vary.

how is this shaker called? where to get it?

Thanks for posting! Is varroxan available to you? My understanding is that an OAE treatment performs poorly as a knockdown but does help slow proliferation.

Phil am I crazy or you had two queens in that same hive ? 3:15 and 5:10

Love the video.👍 Thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to do these experiments and sharing the results! It is very helpful for other Beekeepers trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. I was hoping the Apistan was usable again. Darn it.🐝

I treat without testing and after seeing your video (and Canadian beekeeper) I’m going to do some washes. Thanks

Love to watch your videos.

Nice addition.

Thanks for posting 👍 this is useful to see what people are getting mite count wise and🤦you just reminded me, I did some spring splits and forgot to go back and put strips in them after I moved them🤦 and now it's dark 😂 guess I know what my first job is in the morning 😬🤦 thanks for posting from southern New Zealand 👋😃