Goodness, we have had a ton of late swarms here also. Actually think they are absconds by the different beekeeping chats. My latest catch this year was October 22. I hived it up and am seeing if there is any stitch of chance I can get it through winter. I may make a double screen board and see what I can do. What is your growing zone? Ours is 7b.
So how do you keep from melting your plastic bottom boards with your vaporizer? also I use wood wedges to hold up my coroplast boards to keep the vapors in the hive when i am using my vaporizer, and are you going to NAHBE 2025?
I have a 1/4” hole drilled in the back of each of my deeps that the vaporizer is inserted into. It does not get close enough to the IPM board to melt it. I do not wedge the IPM boards during treatment so some gas does escape. In my experience, the OA sublimates throughout the entire colony and I get a good kill rate based on the mite drops I see on the IPM board afterwards. Technically, you should seal the colony. I just choose not too. It’s a lot of extra time spent. Keep an eye out for a future treatment video I plan to upload soon. And yes, I’ll be at NAHBE. It’s in my backyard so I have no excuse! Haha. Be sure to say hello!
I suggest selecting from colony's that have the traits you want. Rather than culling. I think U Bee O is great for the owner of the bees. Not for breeders selling them. The breeder would have to let these queens lay seven weeks and the confirm she has VSH traits. No breeder is going to do that.
Hives look good. I hear ya on time shortage brother.
The struggle is real! 😁
Goodness, we have had a ton of late swarms here also. Actually think they are absconds by the different beekeeping chats. My latest catch this year was October 22. I hived it up and am seeing if there is any stitch of chance I can get it through winter. I may make a double screen board and see what I can do. What is your growing zone? Ours is 7b.
I've got an Airedale Terrior who loves to eat bees, bumblebees included. He's gets stung in the mouth and continues to eat them...
Lol, silly dogs. Sometimes they have to learn the hard way. Haha
So how do you keep from melting your plastic bottom boards with your vaporizer? also I use wood wedges to hold up my coroplast boards to keep the vapors in the hive when i am using my vaporizer, and are you going to NAHBE 2025?
I have a 1/4” hole drilled in the back of each of my deeps that the vaporizer is inserted into. It does not get close enough to the IPM board to melt it. I do not wedge the IPM boards during treatment so some gas does escape. In my experience, the OA sublimates throughout the entire colony and I get a good kill rate based on the mite drops I see on the IPM board afterwards. Technically, you should seal the colony. I just choose not too. It’s a lot of extra time spent. Keep an eye out for a future treatment video I plan to upload soon.
And yes, I’ll be at NAHBE. It’s in my backyard so I have no excuse! Haha. Be sure to say hello!
I suggest selecting from colony's that have the traits you want. Rather than culling. I think U Bee O is great for the owner of the bees. Not for breeders selling them. The breeder would have to let these queens lay seven weeks and the confirm she has VSH traits. No breeder is going to do that.
I agree.
My grandson’s dog never learns. He’s too hard headed
@@WilliamBryan-q5q must be a female ? 😁