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Please make available a like to Randy's deformed wing virus C study as I do have chemical free (soft and hard) with a USDA chemical test of my 2024 honey to reinforce that claim. I have seen some DWV in previous years but observed none this year. I would like to aid in his efforts.

Great chat Guys, getting cooler down here but bees are ready and plan to put some more feed on next week. Have a great weekend yall :)

😂that’s not cold weather 😅

I have my set up I have bubble wrap on then I put my shim that I put my fondant pack on that so I can open my tops all winter without losing heat

Hi Brian. How are your Castle Hives holding up long term?

Like candy to a kid. They will eat it before the reserves. I don’t mind them eating it first to promote better gut health over the long winter here in Michigan. I have seen the fondant cleanup a dysentery issue over the winter I have a hack video up on how to allow for better access to the product Keep up the good work!

Do the washes kill the bees ? 😢

Beautiful sharing my friend interesting

Any concern about mixong chemicals with Varoxsan & thymol tabs? I had heard that you need to have a break between OAE & apiguard.

Your colonies look great

Thanks for the shout out, Brian! Your bees are looking good!

Thanks Brian. I am going to have to get some of those strips

You did not say what the mite counts were before VarroxSan treatment. If you did not do the pretreatment counts, then how do you know that VarroxSan worked? You might have had low counts before treatment.

With little or no mite pressure you don't learn much. Need to leave 1 or 2 hives without strips to see if they are actually doing anything.

do you find it beneficial to do washes this late in the year when those bees are important winter cluster bees ?

I think smaller Winter real-estate for them was the right choice Brian. I think it'll allow them the ability to manage those Winter nest better, we just have to keep and eye on Winter food consumption.👍Blessed Days buddy...

👋Morning Brian😁 I love me some🥰OA😍Over😍Time.👍They help my bees wash low. I am thinking the 2 styles as over time, plus a OA vape for good knock down might be a game changer. Nice looking bees Brian, they are going to have a nice Winter nest.😁I'm liking organics compared to synthetics personally. Thanks for sharing Brian, Blessed Days buddy...

I hammer mites. Mine get bayvarol strips at the end of winter, then hit them with oxalic. I use wet-ex glycerine oxalic sponges on my hives and I start it mid way through my first OA vapour treatment. This year I spliced a treatment with apiguard tubs of thymol gel as well just as a experiment especially for chalkbrood and it really cleaned the chalkbrood up fast😂 so I'll be adding that in as well. I follow up with monthly washes and more OA vapour treatment if I see the counts go above two. I really hate varroa mites 😂

Bro the stuff you bought and things you used your bees are gonna make it

If you can keep up with it OA vap is the best way I have never seen anyone year just use vapour all year and see what happens you can control them with just OA if I say if you keep up On it

So you were running Api Tablets and VarroxSan? Brian our bees here are bringing is pollen of all colors and still brooding up. From where we do not know. Never seen that before. Nutty!

Great update Brian 👌🐝🐝

Looks like they take chew the comb pretty much down to the foundation where the strips are.

Good video with alot of different things you have in hives. What ever works . Congratulations

Problem with feeding sucrose stimulates brooding.. with no pollen coming in they use the fat in their body's to produce brood .. those bees we see in the snow don't have fat in them why they dwindle.. don't feed them they shut down and that preserves the youth of the best . I normally wait until February and spark them up with feed get them brooding.. drop in the apivar maybe pollen sub depending on weather is warm enough they get flight

great video!! thanks for taking the time to take us on your journey of Varrox/San

Great job Brian

Nov 5th day God reminds us he loves us

Hi Brian Thanks for sharing your results. I always appreciate your videos.

Awesome job!! Thanks!

Thanks for the update Brian. From what I have heard the strips kinda keep the mites at bay. I may do a trial next July after I pull honey here in Northwest Florida.

Good job Brian!

Looks great! Thanks for a post treatment video. Do you happen to have varro counts before the strips?

Nice built but totally useless; It's manual came with no "real" set-up instructions and adjustments.. Do not buy, save your money and buy a real weather station...

How’s this holding up nowadays? Looking into getting our first hive

We’re picking Randy up at the airport for Colorado’s fall meeting today. Great interview, Brian!

I may have to try this shake out method on a queenlees hive I have. There are still 2 capped queen cells so I am going to wait a little while and see what happens. Here in Northwest Florida I still have some drones and good weather. Hopefully a new queen will get mated.

Awesome set up. Looking at doing the same.

I've been printing this for a while now, I'm using PETG, almost complete, 5 more frames and the lid to go.

Sorry for your Loss. I took an observation hive to a market this past weekend. The kids love it and I was surprised how many adults were interested. I had the bees out of the hive for about 24 hours. I didn't see any issue.

Two questions Brian, are you allowed to feed while you use the Voroxxan? Also by shaking those bees out do you think if a couple thousand went into one hive would they bother the queen that was in that hive(kill her)?

So is that strip mimicking a oa sponge like Randy Oliver’s?

Hi from southern New Zealand 👋 😃 had to miss your live chat because I had splits to check, spring has sprung 😂 the thyme is at the purple top stage which means its a week until blossom opening and the purple honey carpet comes out in central Otago 😁love that hive alive syrup, i saw the same results on a Jerome bee farm video, they suck it down quickly, very impressive. I think it would be handy if you came across a light colony you wanted to get emergency weight into fast, im always impressed with hive alive products and use thier fondant for late winter boosting even though my colony's are stocked up with stores because im certain it helps brood start up and sets a good population foundation. Love those straps, im thinking about converting. I brought new metal emlock straps and they suck😂 the old school ones are great but the two new ones i picked up the other day at farmlands are terrible bloody things, gonna ditch them and get tiedown straps

Don’t ever by that hive alive again that’s to pricey u can get a 20kg bag of sugar for 35 Buxs you prob cheaper

I like using those harbor freight straps. They paid for themselves when I had 70 mph winds during one storm. Cheap insurance.

Looks good Brian. What is the moisture content of the syrup? Is it two to one or thinner than that?

Nice video Brian. Looks like that feed is a hit with the bees. Will be interesting to see how the Varroxan works.