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Florida has a drone sampling regiment for a certificate for raising queens. How do we get this sort of control in GA? I know several pollinators from FL that bring really defensive bees into GA. Some within 10 miles of my own apiary/breeding program.

Beekepers- you can tell if Queens tarsals are missing if you flip frame and queen falls off,then chances are her tarsals been chewed off,however I disagree that they usually supercede because of it,that's not been my experience..and don't transfer brood that needs fed still to a diseased hive..only brood not being fed royal jelly anymore and always gauge brood patterns from open brood,not capped brood 😉

I thought for sure they were never going to understand poor Joey's question lol

The amount of money CA makes off bee backs is insane! 10$ really

Excellent presentation really indepth coverage of swarm collection. Thank you from Aus

I'm curious at how fast the OA/glycerin would breakdown on just a pad (titrate). Is the pH remaining constant or is there a change over time? Vegetable glycerin is neutral between 6-8 pH. I can't find the pH for OA. It would look like over time the glycerin would move OA towards neutral and that may stop the effectiveness of the OA. Making pads up ahead of time may be ineffective. By the time they are applied their ability to treat the hive may have been diminished because of a pH change. Temperature can also have an effect on the rate of change with the pH. Are they using deionized water or distilled water? If distilled is it being checked for consistency? Different sources can cause a variation. Thanks for the posting and all the effort being made to find a solution.

when your flow is ending and you want to draw combs add some 1/2 to 1 sugar syrup and they'll keep drawing combs, if you add a new box of foundation take out the frame and put a frame of brood in its place, the bee's will come up to cover the brood and draw out the combs beside it.

what a mess

Excellent presentation! I look forward to the results of Randy's tests on the three mite treatment options.

If you change the hive environment by changing its design features you can be varroa treatment free. You just need to make an environment that reduces the varroa replacement value over each generation. This is not so hard. Forget chemicals. Honey bees in Cuba and South America have apparently learned to deal with it. The reason is likely to be that the climate is hot and humid, both factors of which can benefit the bees against varroa in their own way. The propensity for varroa to die away in a humid hive was found out by accident when a laboratory hive was accidentally left at a higher humidity than others and that one lost its varroa. The precise mechanism of varroa destruction by humidity remains a mystery, but with a very small creature it probably drowns it. The standard vertical bee hive entrance at the floor level of a thin walled vertical hive with ventilation at the top causes a cooling stack (or flue) effect internally. This cools the hive in winter and takes away its humidity all year. If, in a standard vertical hive the bee entrance/ventilation was placed at the top of the brood nest (under the queen excluder in summer) a VIBEZ (Ventilated Integrated Bee Entrance Zone) is formed giving a “bucket” of humid air in the brood nest below. Wrapping the brood boxes of a thin walled vertical hive with aerated concrete blocks is also a major benefit for the bee’s thermoregulation duties, particularly in winter. The temperature of the brood nest is important in the fight against varroa as it affects the pupa hatch period and therefore the time available for the varroa to mature in the cells. The temperature over the time of day and position in the brood nest affects the pupa temperature. Below 29C. and above 37C. the pupa die. At 35C. it takes 10-11 days to hatch. At 31C. it takes 14-15 days to hatch. If you are already committed to the thin walled vertical hives as most are, consider making those modifications to test their efficacy. If you are not committed, the ZEST DIY hive is functionally free of varroa in so far as it does not need treating for it. It has many other advantages in cost, effectiveness and benefit to the bees and bee keeper. It is made from aerated concrete blocks which have 39 times more Resistance (R) to the passage of heat than a thin walled wood hive. It also has top entry. If you want to know more about varroa free hive design go to the ZEST web page, and read the free E-Book going to pages 21 to 24 and 50 where the mechanism for being varroa free is explained. There is a U-tube that you may also want to view titled “Build your own bee hive-heathy bees-zest hive”.

Excellent video and very timely 👍 thank you

Stewed ruebarb is fibrous and holds a lot of water with formic acid ....so maybe cut out the sugar..alas varroa hasent reached western Australia yet otherwise I would try it. When it comes i think it will hit us like a hammer, we have a massive population of feral colonies dark mostly agro bees ,these will all die but hopefully leaving a remnant big enough to begin a natural breeding program. i might live to find out. As for beurocracy they are funded by chemical giants so why would they be helpful? Our agricultural system is the same as yours if you had a patentable chemical they would pay you richly and buy you out. Same story for natural medicine, Same for repurposed drug use as many have become aware of. Obstruction is the key word

Do they lick oxalic acid off their bodies

define safe - prefect.

Why are there no comments. This was very good

Great meeting tonight!!