Hi Glen , thanks for your calm and informative approach to the Verroa mite problem. Going off your experience, this is a great help for all of us who will are inline for the pest in the near future. Keep up the good work. Cheers and Merry Christmas.
glen thats a pretty good result , with only 14 hives here on the property i can check my surveillance mats every day ,And i collect all the data like you for my own information moving forward , the numbers do go up and down thru the treatments as brood emerges . Everyone trying and treating one way or another will get thru it together . thank you for what you do for us and sharing the experience . Cheers Dave and merry xmas
hopefully before that gets here the vigilant people like yourself will have good management strategies , i believe that luckily we are learning the mite control on the back end of the rest of the world , if we follow the research and don't try to reinvent the wheel we will get thru it together , gonna be a pain in the ass but doable nether the less
WOW .... thats a lot of mites in 24 hours, the product is working thats for sure... and as Dave Sweeney says, we are lucky to be on the back of the rest of the world, and I'm hoping here in Western Australia, it'll be even further away, but I don't hold out much hope, someone will bring it in .... but thankyou Glenn , for your video's , Ideas, putting yourself out there and doing the hard work, it really is appreciated 👌and I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to a fantastic 2025....cheers Wilson
Thanks for sharing Glen. I imagine that this is somewhat of a shock. I agree with your view on not repeating the exercise, personally I don’t see the point and frankly I believe it would be counterproductive moving forward. I am sure that there will be more challenging times ahead and having some capital in support from others will become more important. Cheers Mate 🐝
When I first counted 666 mites I thought the devil had arrived, and it was a record. I've counted several with 12 to 1500 since. To get a reasonably accurate count, you can count a representative column (usually about a 1/3 from the edge) and multiply it by the number of columns. Also, when you get your first bag of varoxan, keep the bag. It's "refillable" 😉.
Thanks Phil, yeah just done for the exercise. Lots of denial & heads in the sand down here when it come to Varroa. I have seen a count of 10 000 on a mat from Kempsey about an hour south of here which was reinfestation after a successful treatment with Bayvarol. Thanks for the tip about the Varroxsan bag we've already worked it out.
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Hi Glen , thanks for your calm and informative approach to the Verroa mite problem. Going off your experience, this is a great help for all of us who will are inline for the pest in the near future. Keep up the good work. Cheers and Merry Christmas.
Thanks Paul
glen thats a pretty good result , with only 14 hives here on the property i can check my surveillance mats every day ,And i collect all the data like you for my own information moving forward , the numbers do go up and down thru the treatments as brood emerges . Everyone trying and treating one way or another will get thru it together . thank you for what you do for us and sharing the experience . Cheers Dave and merry xmas
It's pretty evident that if you had a count of 100 in a wash the hive would be under significant pressure. Add deformed wing virus & it's curtains.
hopefully before that gets here the vigilant people like yourself will have good management strategies , i believe that luckily we are learning the mite control on the back end of the rest of the world , if we follow the research and don't try to reinvent the wheel we will get thru it together , gonna be a pain in the ass but doable nether the less
WOW .... thats a lot of mites in 24 hours, the product is working thats for sure... and as Dave Sweeney says, we are lucky to be on the back of the rest of the world, and I'm hoping here in Western Australia, it'll be even further away, but I don't hold out much hope, someone will bring it in .... but thankyou Glenn , for your video's , Ideas, putting yourself out there and doing the hard work, it really is appreciated 👌and I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to a fantastic 2025....cheers Wilson
Thanks mate. Bayvarol will drop most of the phoretic mites off in 24/48 hrs. Enjoy your Varroa free time while you can.
Thanks for sharing Glen. I imagine that this is somewhat of a shock. I agree with your view on not repeating the exercise, personally I don’t see the point and frankly I believe it would be counterproductive moving forward. I am sure that there will be more challenging times ahead and having some capital in support from others will become more important. Cheers Mate 🐝
Thanks Lindsay
When I first counted 666 mites I thought the devil had arrived, and it was a record. I've counted several with 12 to 1500 since. To get a reasonably accurate count, you can count a representative column (usually about a 1/3 from the edge) and multiply it by the number of columns. Also, when you get your first bag of varoxan, keep the bag. It's "refillable" 😉.
Thanks Phil, yeah just done for the exercise. Lots of denial & heads in the sand down here when it come to Varroa. I have seen a count of 10 000 on a mat from Kempsey about an hour south of here which was reinfestation after a successful treatment with Bayvarol. Thanks for the tip about the Varroxsan bag we've already worked it out.
Thats scary to hear that number isn't it. Cheers
Yes I have seen up to 10 000 mites on a mat.