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Thank you for your comment. That is true if you start with fresh laid eggs in the upper chamber, but if you already have queen cells it will take less time. This is a general idea on how to manipulate the hives in the event that swarming is likely to happen.

This is a more advanced technique to manipulating the hives to prevent swarming, thus waste of resources. If you can watch other videos to understand the principle for this technique it will be easier to understand. This video demonstrates the logistics on how this is done. There is also a link of a flow chart above to help you understand the workflow.

Lol!

Sorry about the confusion. There is a flowchart on the comment above that will walk you through the process. You can also find other people description on the process to help you understand.

Crystals give us energies right? I thought they would do the same for the bees ;)

Yea, they smell different

Thanks!

I didn't get the idea from a study. Someone talked about it in our bee club, I thought I give it a try.

Yea, she's fine. Her wings were fanning.

@@susiebeequeen3227 ok, was just making sure she was good.

Lavender is pretty harmless to the bees, they love lavender and are on the plant all the time when it blooms.

@@susiebeequeen3227 I very much appreciate your response, but a live Lavender plant can be a very different thing than a dead/dying one. For example, a plant eating animal can safely eat the leaves of a live Cherry Tree, but once the leaves are off the tree they start to have chemicals in the leaves break down into toxic cyanide based compounds that are toxic and can even be lethal to plant eating animals. What is to say this isn't the case with Lavender and bees? To say that there is a compound toxic enough to thwart mites is quite likely to be toxic to bees as well. It is just a word of caution that anecdotal evidence is very dangerous to promote until it has been rigorously researched and proven to do what you hope, otherwise there is the very real potential that it could actually do more harm than good.

Thanks. I was going to comment but you said it far better than I would have.

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I have yet to try that. I do use sugar roll to check mite counts.

ya maybe it was confused those vicious bitches maybe i should introduce a murder hornet AHH WHAT NOW oh no now i have a problem haha jokes but seriously, so much for coexistence

That is nice to know. So far oxalic acid is the only chemical I use, but only when there's no supers. It is nice to know there are other options. Thanks!

I am using hop guard.

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This is a Carniolan queen hive, they are super mellow :)

Thank you!

My camera's slow motion won't allow sound recording. I will upload some videos with regular speed without sound tracks. I love the buzzing sound too :)

Thank you for your input! Varroa mites is a serious problem and we take it seriously. An integrated treatment practice is important. That includes keeping the hive healthy and doing regular mite checks and treating the mites when it's necessary.

Thanks for your complement! The bees are pretty good at coordinating, sometimes they do the fanning together and you can hear a much louder buzzing sound when they do that ;) It is important to set up the hive so that they can create an airflow to regulate temperature and humanity. I am amazed at what they can do!

Definitely different... They weren't that interested in lavender.