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What a great windbreak! Our warmer Fall here, seeing to much brood yet. We are trying to stuff the brood chamber. I suspect you might benefit from a 2 gram dose. Thank you for the updates!

Not a lot of bees in there

How much acid do you use per colony?

In the situation when we use apivar, let's say there is 1 or 2 apiaries that are higher mites than others and needed to apply apivar, I'm making sure to split those double brood box colonies earlier in order to used those brood for weaker colonies. There are always a lot of weaker colonies in spring. In the real world, when adding 2nd brood box particularly here in Manitoba, the weather is very unpredictable. There are situations I need to add 2nd brood box earlier when colonies populations are exploding, daytime temperatures can be very warm, but the night temperatures are crazy cold. I need to put my 2nd brood box under until I am confident enough with Forcast that can be more consistent and worried about freezing your brood. I'm trying to anticipate a couple of things. Preventing the swarm fever by providing extra room at the same time, I keep my brood on top where most of the warm inside stays to make sure not freezing them. Sometimes, I add honey supers at the same time as 3rd box with excluder above 2nd box. When dandelion is started to bloom with unpredictable weather conditions. I am not doing this to all of my yards because the weather conditions here can change so fast. Situation like this. I split this yards first, make nucleus colonies and used for brood support or equalizing the weaker colonies. And the honey on the supers is used as feed frames instead of spending more on sugar syrup. I'm not saying that's how most beekeepers do here. This is my management strategy in my operation only.

I am in the same boat. I did 14 day/10 day/9 day thymol and still had4-8 percent. Clearly have far fewer hives but more time to worry and study. I put on a OA dribble today with glycerin instead of sugar to keep it out of them the best I can. Alas I am at the point were I am out of time and options like yourself. As you say every year is different. fwiw... I think our mite washes are simply a poor representation of the number of mites in the hive. The amount of capped brood vs the number of bees in the hive in combination with how much brood will hatch in the next ten days seem critical to understanding the actual real number. When it comes to pigs that reproduce once a year but will make 10 were there was one, the numbers go up on an angle that is very steep not unlike out mite counts. We have shown over and over to have any effect at all we must kill 80% for two years running before we see any change in numbers (in the region) in the third year. If we do nothing in the fourth year they are back to year one numbers by then end of year five. wtf does this have to do with bees? We should be willing and happy to see our mite washes stay the same for three weeks in a row if we wash and treat with OA once a week. It is only once the brood has started to hatch that was capped the first day we did a treatment that we can say we actually have a handle on mites. I fail to see how a mite wash on Sept one followed by a treatment would expect to bring the next mite wash down next week. The mites you find in your wash next week were under wax last week thus a wash and treatment regiment that gave three washes in a row that said the same percent means you are winning. You are loosing if the number goes up. One has to keep treating until we see the number of mites collapse to below point five percent. I encourage rebuttal and ideas. I dont claim to be right I am analyzing numbers.

I'm happy with Tymovar, the first time I used it this fall. Checked after treatment - few yards 1-2% biggest level - 3.5 one yard and the rest of the yards - 0%. Now going with ox second round

I would like to clarify this point - after wintering, you put up a second box and juggle the brood between the first and second boxes. When honey flow begins, you put up a Queen Excluder and the upper box with brood turns into a honey super from which you then extract out honey. And what about the medications and other substances that are present in the brood frames? Beekeepers who keep bees in two brood chambers never extract honey from the brood chambers. Essentially you also had 2 brood boxes, and than you put up a Queen Excluder when honeyflow starts.

Over half, probably 80% drop in 24 hours. Total drop in 3 days. If you wait more than 5 days between treatments some of the mites emerge, feed on the bees and escape below newly capped cells.

Most of the mites drop in first 24 hrs afyer oxalic vapor from my observations. I do formic until end of sept. Then switch to oxalic and use sticky boards to monitor drop, applying 4g every 3 days. I had a couple yards that got to 10 percent mite counts that still see mites drop after 7th application of oxalic. It works.. but have to do it a lot more than you think and any amount of capped brood can hide a lot of mites. I'm in alberta and seem to have very similar mite counts to you. Hopefully the bees look OK in spring

Try essential oils.

Same here brother. With the stretched Fall weather we are looking at one half dose of Apiguard.

I hear ya. We need more treatment options

Nice dula set up. Thanks for sharing, Blessed Days...

How many hives are you running?

Nice operation 👍 👏

A friend of mine has a interesting theory, he says any hives with brood this time of year usually has a mite problem, he says the bees or queen are trying to compensate for the damaged winter bees by raising more bees

I use the soap as well. It’s cheaper and I find it drops the mites quicker That thymovar has been in for quite a while. I bet most of the thymol is dispersed by now. O think it’s a good idea to start the OA rounds especially if you are finding lower brood in the nests Damn mites. Everyone is finding them this year

Wait I thought the ApiLife Var dosing was "three applications are necessary at 7-10 day intervals"? For Apiguard we do 2 doses at 10 day intervals. Then a hard OA dust up. If you put those on a month ago you should be able to hit them right now with OA. Good luck!

My experience with thymovar is similar. I am not sure the covering of the pads makes a significant impact on mite kill as I do not believe the thymol level would be maintained strong enough to kill a might even 4 days after application. On day one the smell to me was very strong and the bees bearded quit a bit... it was also hot so heavy off gassing. By day four they were back to work and the smell was greatly reduced. I removed the pads on day 17 and replaced them as per instructions. Very little in the way of bees moving out but it almost 10 C cooler now. Two things that matter that the sellers are not saying are... there are a lot of factors influencing the rate of gas off and even 20% lower than the max does and it would not kill mites. So at 30C day and night this stuff might kill every adult in 24 hours but at 20C and 4C at night the gas off is so low it might not actually even get strong enough to kill mite. WE as bee keepers have to stop excepting the killing of the adults and scream for something that kills the larvae. How many years did we spray for mosquitos until we admitted killing the adults was a waste of time when the swamp had millions ready to hatch... One cup of Canola oil on your pond and ALL of the mosquitos are dead. Cheap and effective but there is NO money in it for the pesticide companies. ua-cam.com/video/zri6y1Dde04/v-deo.html I just found this yesterday. If a person combined this treatment with an OA vape while the brood was being cooked I see this as at least a 99% kill rate and that has a real impact. Lets not spend too much time talking about how impractical it is.... it is "impractical" to keep trying pesticide after pesticide to kill only adults is simply a stop gap short term fix..... and it cost a lot! People in your shoes would have to move the pesticide budget to the labor budget but it would actually work while the pesticides are a rabbit hole that never ends. I am in BC. I enjoy the content. It is always great to see someone passionate about their work.

Wow great crop!

Time restrictions aside, I'm pretty sure your single dose of thyme will not get those hives ready. I hope you have time for some other treatments aside from OA. Have no idea what. Guess you could do a second 10 day dose of Apiguard. Leaving you with plenty of time before wrapping. Keep us apprised sir. Looking forward to your updates, prayers lifted.

Recommended 2 treatments with Thymovar one following the other to catch emerging mites

You have a few honey supers stacked up it appears.😁Congratulations.

Maybe follow up with oxalic vapor after your Thymovar treatment? Edit: Wrote this while watching, you now mentioned it.

I like your clean honey house

I I apologize for the one video clip that was entered twice!

Naa mo ginapakaon anang bubuyog?

Have you done any mite washing? What are those counts?

Russell Koopman made the observation that the drone kick out timing was possibly a necessary time to hit the hives with OA sublimation. The "Koopman affect". Great to have your observations on the topic. Thank you brother.

Have you noticed any side effects from thymovar?

Nice move sir im inspired the way you work i learned something for you shout out im from mt.province

Chamber do you do a OA Vap right after pulling the Thymol? A clean up dose. What are the patch treatments costs per hive? I'd guess the Apiguard in bulk is cheaper? Thank you for posting, Blessings!

Ya, my colonies are staged the same

Yep it's that time of year for Northern Beekeepers. Thanks for sharing your time with us, Blessed Days...

Hello sir galing po ba kayo ng slu?

Who makes the motorized loader your using, power kart

Crazy Blessed harvest! How many production hives do you run sir? Do you sell is all in bulk to Bee Maid?

BEES!😂Good stuff, grats on the harvest this year.

We had the insane rain here in central Minnesota. After 3 years of draught then torrential rains and spotty nectar availability. Swarming of 50- 80% was normal. Hard to keep the wheels on. Blessings.

Great 2 man method, love it.

Wow talk about Beezy! God is smiling for sure.

Awesome video!

Nice men's

We finish bringing in first pull today, finishing off with the nucs and splits . Time to make the final push on second round. Good to hear you found barrels

Excellent job well done!

Nice, congratulations.👍It always feels good when all the work pays off. Blessed Days...

How long do you leave the supers before blowing and picking up?

Ive seen some of 628 dirt roosters videos where he filled the back of a pickup with boxes and nucs and shook swarms this size into them. I believe he relocated them and added queen cells.

wow that is all I can say

Good work! Thanks for the video!