Dealing With Varroa Mites | Dealing With Conflict
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- It's that time everyone, at least for my little beekeeping operation. Time to deal with those nasty varroa mites. Everyone has there ways and methods, whether treating or not treating at all, and in this trip to the bee yard in town, I will be doing my method for this season. I am excited for the great harvest and I like what I'm seeing in the bees. Let's go out into this yard and take a look and get these treatments on the hives.
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Great talk!!
Thanks!!
Hey Mike, I agree with you that everyone should keep an open mind about how they manage their bees. Its been hot/humid up here in Pa near Philly. The heat and humidity zaps the life out of me as well.
We all just need to see where we’re going and manage appropriately is how I figure it.
Im glad you are not one of those treatment free hippies like Mr Ed and the Rooster! Kidding of course. Those guys are great.
I agree Phillip! On all points😁😁
About time for me to treat as well. Not sure if you caught Greg’s talk at the NCSBA conference but he uses 35 gm and said he believes that is the sweet spot. Of course those of us using the foil packs find it hard to gauge that dose. Colonies looking good!
I sure did John. I actually went to lunch with him after that talk and explained what I had done in this video (I shot this before I went to see y’all😁), and I told him I would go back with the 35. He kind of coached me thru some ways to play catch up, so I got busy and got the second treatments on when I got back. I so enjoyed his two presentations and visiting with him. Planning to visit him when I vacation to Asheville. Have a great weekend my friend!!
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Hey Mike! When I use Apiguard I put it in the box farthest from the door. I want them to carry it out using the longest distance possible. I also don’t use it past 88 degrees and I watch what the heat index is…just how it use it.
As for the OA extended release, I use those absorbent pads and not those Swedish towels. The bees chew up the towels and get it out to fast. They don’t or can’t do anything to the pads and you want that OA to stay in the box as long as possible. That’s how I do it 🤷🏻♂️
Wish I could experience 88 degrees when it’s time to treat😬😬. Listening to Greg Rodger’s recently, I’m encouraged with the results he saw with OAE and also with his success rate with Thymol at 35 three times in the heat.
With you Mike - do what you're gonna do, I'll do what I'm gonna do and they can do what they're gonna do or not do. Been leaning towards using apiguard later this fall myself. Like Bob Bennie I'm doing maintenance treatments to keep the mite numbers down so they never get high. Management that results in healthy hives and overwintering success works for me. Yeah that humidity is like breathing water instead of air.
Greg Rodger’s did a great lecture and he explained how three treatments a year, evenly spaced, was having a 90% efficacy. That’s rotating treatments as well.
Mr Ed is gonna get you bud 😂😂
I’m a get him😂😂😂. He hasn’t seen this video yet, but when he does, I’ll be getting a call😂😂
if only people dealt with life that way. Good strategy, that's what I love about the bee keepers i watch, they have their way, they show it and they leave it...bee😜 Thanks for sharing!!
I try to apply it to life in all aspects. I fail sometimes, but the older I get, the more I realize that life is short and God doesn’t need me down here crack g conflict, but more to be bringing people together and to Him primarily. Thanks for watching!!
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Mike, you are oh so right about not arguing!
Thanks Don. Just not worth the energy or effort. Nothing comes out of it anyhow. Hope you are well Don!!
Is this "All you need to know about treatments" video ? 😎
Mike, in my experience everyone with 3+ years of beekeeping under their belt.. with reasonable survival rates thinks "I'm a great beekeeper. I'm gonna teach you now". There's nothing to learn anymore.. l know how to"... Specially after they have a good honey year. They become the best.. and it's like that everywhere. I'm watching it all my life. It spreads and after it even when you try to help them they won't listen because now they know better..
So there's no use in arguing. I usually write what I already tried and how it worked for me.. and if it helps someone good for them. There's way too many opinions without trying it , on YT.
Yes, 3 years is a significant time and I see that too. There is actually a name for the act and it’s called Dunning-Kruger Effect. Real deal. I try to just listen and interject, but with some I just stop and break away when I can😁😁
@@MikeBarryBees Haha, yeah it starts after three years. Many times I just want to help them. But all they want is listen how good they are with their video. It ends up with them being offended 😁 so l started to give up on that. I try to give options and they take it like opinions. The funny part is that they ask for it in the video 😅.
Stay cool.. this heat waves l get are too much...
I agree about arguing it’s a waste of time, you do you I’ll do me we don’t have to agree differences is what makes the world go. Take care, God bless
Agree!! Thanks and blessings to you all as well!!
Whenever someone says hot and humid i immediately go to when i went to help @brucebees in Alabama and yeah it sucked the life out of haha!
Yep, same region…. Brutal… older I get, harder it gets.. thanks for watching!
You are SO RIGHT about dealing with people who want to argue about management styles! May God bless you, Mike!
Thanks Brad!!
Great video Mike, I just started with OA and I made some OAE pads that i'm putting on the hives , gonna give it a try, just trying to skip a year using Apivar. God Bless
Sounds like a plan Brad and thanks for the support. Glad you enjoyed it!!
Mike, I have your same attitude about treating or not treating. Do what you want to do. Happy beekeeping to you and may God bless you and your bees
Thanks Michael!
Thank you. I do appreciate your sharing this in your style. I am still checking for mites here in Queensland, haven't found any yet. Good to see how it is done. Again, thank you.
Thanks and I sure hope they stay away as long as possible. Hated to hear when they made it over there. Just stay up to date on them so you can figure how you will deal with them should they make it to your yard.
Thanks Mike. I love seeing how you do it in the south. I use brood breaks (queen cage) and thymol. And sugar water mister. The sugar water gets the bees cleaning each other and the hive. Many valid points. And to each their own.
Good deal. Glad you mentioned brood breaks. Another great strategy!!
Mike, what kind of bee suit are you using? Seems nicely built and loose.
It’s from Guardian Bee Apparel. Great company, service, and products!!
always enjoy you processing how you do beekeeping with us. Thanks.
Bee 🐝 Blessed!!!!!!
Thanks!! Glad you enjoy the videos!!
Great Advice Mike!!!
Thanks Tom!
Good video Mike..got me some treatments on today with my nephew Nathan helping me.
It was a good day and im with you on having time to do washes.Im gonna treat anyways and anything is better than nothing.Thank you for sharing your beelife with us!
Thanks Tim! Yea, I’d rather spend time Ches few afterwards to see effectiveness since I’ll be treating all of them anyway
Agree 100% with you on the treatment opinions. We have a large push in our local club to be treatment free and me and another beekeeper have expressed concerns for the new beekeepers starting out and expense of loses if not treating. Give our opinions to get 2-3 years under them and then go treatment free if they want. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you!!!
I like that advice and agree 100%. Get the basics down, learn the enemy and then find the direction they want to go. Thanks for watching and have a great week!!
Hi Mike . New NewBee here. can you suggest how we can deal with ants. They are always in our hives
Oh wow, ants! Just hate them and I really have not found a good way to keep them out. I think migratory covers help if you’re having trouble with them on the inner covers of telescoping lids. Takes away that dead space that they can congregate in. Diatomaceous earth around the hives will work but has to be replaced after rain and also periodically. I’ve heard of cinnamon but I’ve not seen good results with that. But folks say it works for them, so that’s another option to try. Of course there are any poisons for around the hives, but that is risky and really I don’t like any synthetic poisons on the surface around my hives. Strong colonies can manage as long as the ants don’t get too populous, but sometimes they just need to be moved to another area if they can’t be controlled. Hope that helps you. Thanks for watching!!
Good that you're taking is slow & easy, yet steady in such humidity. I am a desert flower and don't deal well with humidity. Blessings
Yea, it’s all I can do. I have to slow down and not let my brain tell me to go faster. I’ve been I. That desert heat before. Dried out my entire sinus tract😬😬. But dangerous in a different way out there. I worked in Nevada and the desert in California. Extreme heat in those deserts. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
Totall agree do what works for you.
Thanks John!
Treatment or treatment free? I use +32 windshield wash year-round in my truck. My brother uses 0F windshield wash in his truck. I'm in Texas. He's in Indiana. As you said, we each do what works for us where we are! Environment, genetics, goals, production, time... all significant factors in varroa impact.
Yep Tony, agree 100%! Type bees too. The bees you raise hold off mites better in studies due to swarming behavior and nest sizes being smaller. So many variables. Thanks for watching!!
@@MikeBarryBees I agree that swarming and smaller nests do affect varroa controls. While I can have swarming, "small nest sizes" is the opposite of what I see. 2+ boxes of brood is common. I attribute much of it to them just plain being 'MEAN'. I joke that they have 1 philosophy: if it is not one of their family & it comes in the front door, they have only 1 answer and that is to kill it. Mouse? Dead. Wasps, dead. SHB, dead. Moths, dead. Skunk at door, dead/driven away. Varroa, dead three times over. Only bad part of that approach is that they try the same thing with their loving beekeeper!
Hello
Mr. Mike
I am planning on using the Apiguard this year again just to try . I think it was three years ago I used it an got
bad results BUT I
Just thought I would try one more time. I do not know if I got a bad batch or if it was something I did or what ever I do not know. I will for sure do a follow up with OAV that I know it works but I already know it will take several treatments an that is all right with me. . I have seven supers left to pull an that will be all mine . I have been doing my inspection an checking queens as I finish pulling . I picked up another bee yard last Tuesday an planning on moving bees next week after inspection and treatments . I have five I plan on splitting this week an that will be part of the ones I move . Always really enjoy your time in your Bee yard or whatever’s going on. Thanks
I had good results with it and I did partial treatments a couple years ago, so I’m hoping with a full treatment and good product dates, I get a good knockdown and then a follow up in winter with OAV. Should get me thru, I hope
@@MikeBarryBees ya with the way you do things I think you will have yours taken care of in no time. I think I have eight more to check but so far I have had 5’s or below but I did have one that was a 13 check . But I will treat ALL because if I have a 5 today then next month it may be out of hand . Did you see Hillco’s new update extractor like yours . Thanks Mike
Mike, I hope Apiguard has worked well for you. So August is when you start doing OAV?
Hope you had a good weekend.
Usually I start in August if I don’t use anything else. Since I’m using apiguard, I’ll do OAV in December now and only twice in a 7 day interval. You have a great one as well Russell. Next year, I hope to swing by. Did the quetico again and time constraints keep me from veering west off my route in the way up.
@@MikeBarryBees You are sure more than welcome to come by and visit.
I Love how you always say... This is not a How To video. This is a How I Do video. I too use what I like to call my Faith from Buffy the Slayer method... 5x5. When asked how she's doing Faith says 5x5. 5 treatments 5 days apart. Then in November when it's Cooler... Formic Pro 1 strip for 10 days then repeat. Then again in early Spring.
Yep. That 5X5 works. I used very similar timeline most years with great success. Only issue is time for me. I am trying to use something that is less time each treatment and less days. I was out every week with the OA vaporizer and just don’t have the time. But it works. Haven’t ventured into the Formica pro just yet. Still skittish on that, but got good pointers at the NC State conference on using it in the spring.
@@MikeBarryBees I love the ease of Formic Pro. Just open the box... lay a strip... close the box... in 10 days, repeat. Very easy. Very effective. But I can only use it in Nov- Dec and in April when it's Cooler
I treated yesterday without mite checking, but there's always mites, .i used OA /glycerin dribble .. I've had good success with that just doing it 1 to 2 times per year & I've used a weak OA solution mix, so in my opinion it doesn't take anything super strong to knock em down...I bought everything to do OA Extended release, but havnt had time to make them up..
Agree, always mites and even more in stronger colonies. The dribble is a good method that a lot of people like. Maintaining low mites is what we all do anyhow. Same thing with me on the OAE. I just haven’t made the time to make up the pads.
Looks like an easy product to use. 😊 What is it?
It’s apiguard which is thymol. Very easy to use, just very heat limited, so with you in the desert, you’d have to be vigilant with the restrictions.
ha mike the oae release is going to be availabe in aug for almost 90.00 double deeps u can do if i figured it right 7 hives. it is going to be very pricey I used the apigaurd this year I like it i did 1//2 doses it worked great. I have 1 more treatment to do with it, life is good. good video hope every thing works out good for u. Have a very blessed week
I saw that. Betterbee has it. There is a waiting list right now and the media used to release it is going to be the main issue to see if it works well or just ok. I’m hoping we see good results and that they don’t gouge us too bad on price like they have with the OA from Mann lake.
Mite checks don't check where the mites are anyway. 90% of them are under the cappings
That’s true, but it gives us a good idea of infestation. But I figure, I’m team g them all anyhow, I’d rather check afterwards on some random colonies and just see how they look. To see if I was even effective. I am bad about checking though since I work and only have nights and weekends.
Obviously you don't have Russian Queens. My Russians are the nicest bees you could want, I can stand right by the hives and watch them all day and they won't bother me at all. But boy when you open up the hive at all they are on you in a flash even if you smoke the hive.
I had a Russian queen once and did several splits and they were more on the aggressive side. They were true Russian bees from Dr. John Harbo. They usually calmed down by April. I liked the russian bees a lot. Hoping to get some queens next season.
Emily from beefit came out today we made up 44 nucs . She's definitely fit by the time I cut some pallets to size she's got the truck unloaded brood and honey frames all spread out perfect. I just had to drop it in the brood and food .. by the time I got that dropped in she got the queens installed. I didn't even say how I wanted like she could read my mind. 20 minutes we did 44 nucs .. she is one impressive young lady true credit to humanity just rear these days. Her story powerful really brings me faith in our Lord to be honest. That one there going to be a major player in the bee industry give her 20 years.. she will earn every bit of it
She is definitely on top of the mission and path she has chosen. Starting young and on a great path.
Apiguard is my go to, but this heat has been rough on them. Lost more to absconding rhan ever this year 😪 oh well choose your poison
thats a real concern with Apiguard.
So at the NC conference, Greg Rodger’s did a great presentation and one thing that came out on the apiguard use was 35 three times instead of the full dose twice. Of course he is cooler in Asheville than a lot of the state.
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