This is what I absolutely hate about treatment free beekeepers, they fail to understand basic bee biology not to mention basic bee math (1 mite per 300 bees is not 33%) and they think they're going to be the ones that solve all our problems? These uneducated hippy-dippy 2-bit inbred degenerates including Bruce Rodriguez from Swarmstead bees and gardening are going to be the ones that tell beekeepers, including all the scientists and researchers who are working tirelessly to bring innovative solutions to the table that everyone is wrong and they, a diluted beekeeping minority are right? Is this the standard they're going by? Prove the industry wrong, go ahead but make sure you bring data with you, as that is the only thing that counts in the end, treatment free beekeepers haven't done this, yet; however there is always hope that they will some day lol! Does anyone find how some treatment free beekeepers define anything you do to a hive a treatment annoying? Tell me if that annoys any of you because it sure as shit bugs the hell out of me! Dennis Vanengelsdorp and his team did a study on this very topic, the study was to determine what increased mite drop in a colony. So they took 1000 colonies, inspected 500 of them on a regular basis and left the other 500 alone. Do you know what they found? The 500 colonies that were inspected regularly had a mite drop that was higher than the others that were not inspected, even though none of the colonies in the experiment were treated with a miticide, simply by removing frames encouraged mites to fall off the backs of bees. So for the treatment free beekeeping purists, do any of you classify a hive inspection as a treatment? If an inspection encourages mites to fall are you unintentionally helping the bees? And if it's a help, do you consider it a treatment?
Misses the end 😢 And wish you would Explain what if you did find a high count of mite? If you are treatment free how you plan to get it down ? 🤓 Love your videos and explanations ❤
I was treatment free and it worked great for 5 years and then it was a very wet year and the varroa chalkbrood afb and sacbrood got half my colonies. I should have changed comb sooner too though. There are just to many factors trying to kill bees at the moment. But if you can make it work more power to you guys :)
In Michigan myself beekeeping, I was worried I wasn't getting enough sun until I saw yours in the shade. What about hotter highs versus cooler hives, ie shade versus sun. Do you see less mites in one versus the other?
I work for two commercial pollinators and have never heard them refer to their bees as having any special genetics. We order the same queens from breeders everyone else does.
Darn glitch cut u off at the end😔Oh well Great video regardless and Congrats on ur Super low mite load Holy Smokes Indeed!👏😊👏I Love ur commentary on ur vids especially the very dramatic "Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnn!"👏🤣👏So cool that the bees can not only smell the mites but also get rid of them too🤯Happy 1st day of Summer by the way! How's running going? I forgot about ur OA gun that thing is Super cool reminds me of a Ghostbuster gun🤣Well Thanks again for a Great and Entertaining video and Yes to preemptive strikes! Take care, Emily and I will see U in the next one my Favorite Keeper✌️☺️ #emilyisthebeesknees #dundundunnnnnn #holysmokes #beefitbeeyard #beefitbeekeeping #beefitapiary #beefit #beekind
Your mite counts on the almond hives are going to be low, but thats because they were drenched in taktic/amitraz when you bought the hives. The mites are in your drones and on your drones. Those queens havent had enough time to turn over those giant colonies you bought in. The workers in those hives are still very much commercial stock.
@@Swarmstead what criticisms? She's going to see what happens with treatment free on almond hives...nothing to criticize....her dues will get paid just like the rest of us. Point is, her colonies are going to explode with Varroa because they are junk commercial stock. The mites are in the drones not on her bees...and those queens she put in aren't the cause of her 1%. I want to know what happened to all of her colonies she didn't buy in and how are they doing. Why are we only hearing about almond hives? How'd the last treatment free bees do?
@@Swarmstead hey Bruce how bout you make another video about everything that's wrong with everything she said so we can get it right on how to criticize people...
@@JamesLeesBees she has zero (0) established survival stock. The cutout will probably abscond. She doesn't know what treatment free beekeeping is, that's why she keeps ignorantly misrepresenting it. The question isn't "How'd the treatment free bees do?" It's "How does commercial stock hold up when not propped up?" But I see what you did there.
Just making it up at this point. Intentional brood breaks are a treatment, and 1/300 is .33 %. Still low, but not .03%
Check your math lol
@@QueenVeesHoney3/300 is one percent. Divide one percent by 3. You get one third of one percent.
Shooting from the hip as always😂😂
@@Swarmstead How many mites per 300 bees requires treatment Bruce?
This is what I absolutely hate about treatment free beekeepers, they fail to understand basic bee biology not to mention basic bee math (1 mite per 300 bees is not 33%) and they think they're going to be the ones that solve all our problems? These uneducated hippy-dippy 2-bit inbred degenerates including Bruce Rodriguez from Swarmstead bees and gardening are going to be the ones that tell beekeepers, including all the scientists and researchers who are working tirelessly to bring innovative solutions to the table that everyone is wrong and they, a diluted beekeeping minority are right? Is this the standard they're going by? Prove the industry wrong, go ahead but make sure you bring data with you, as that is the only thing that counts in the end, treatment free beekeepers haven't done this, yet; however there is always hope that they will some day lol! Does anyone find how some treatment free beekeepers define anything you do to a hive a treatment annoying? Tell me if that annoys any of you because it sure as shit bugs the hell out of me! Dennis Vanengelsdorp and his team did a study on this very topic, the study was to determine what increased mite drop in a colony. So they took 1000 colonies, inspected 500 of them on a regular basis and left the other 500 alone. Do you know what they found? The 500 colonies that were inspected regularly had a mite drop that was higher than the others that were not inspected, even though none of the colonies in the experiment were treated with a miticide, simply by removing frames encouraged mites to fall off the backs of bees. So for the treatment free beekeeping purists, do any of you classify a hive inspection as a treatment? If an inspection encourages mites to fall are you unintentionally helping the bees? And if it's a help, do you consider it a treatment?
Thanks for sharing interesting content with excellent narrative Emily 💜👍
What are these Dipladoo bees you referred to?
Have you ever considered a horizontal set-up? Or looked into the Layens frames?
Misses the end 😢 And wish you would Explain what if you did find a high count of mite? If you are treatment free how you plan to get it down ? 🤓 Love your videos and explanations ❤
Great job
I was treatment free and it worked great for 5 years and then it was a very wet year and the varroa chalkbrood afb and sacbrood got half my colonies. I should have changed comb sooner too though. There are just to many factors trying to kill bees at the moment. But if you can make it work more power to you guys :)
I used a foil pan using vegetable oil in my home built bottom board with a screen, it works fine.
Problem with vegetable oil instead of mineral oil is that eventually it goes rancid.
Just curious, what brand bee jacket and pants do you use?
Hey thanks for reaching out! I decided to answer this question specifically in tomorrows video! ☺️
Do you ever feed your bees a mushroom extract ? I just heard certain mushroom mycellium can massively boost foragers lifespan and fight disease
In Michigan myself beekeeping, I was worried I wasn't getting enough sun until I saw yours in the shade. What about hotter highs versus cooler hives, ie shade versus sun. Do you see less mites in one versus the other?
Hive beetles will be the problem in weaker hives being in the shade
I work for two commercial pollinators and have never heard them refer to their bees as having any special genetics. We order the same queens from breeders everyone else does.
Where are you located in Michigan
I think your upload may have glitched? The end of your video is you mid-sentence.
Oh no it did 🙃 grrrr I will have to refinish what I was saying in another video
Darn glitch cut u off at the end😔Oh well Great video regardless and Congrats on ur Super low mite load Holy Smokes Indeed!👏😊👏I Love ur commentary on ur vids especially the very dramatic "Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnn!"👏🤣👏So cool that the bees can not only smell the mites but also get rid of them too🤯Happy 1st day of Summer by the way! How's running going? I forgot about ur OA gun that thing is Super cool reminds me of a Ghostbuster gun🤣Well Thanks again for a Great and Entertaining video and Yes to preemptive strikes! Take care, Emily and I will see U in the next one my Favorite Keeper✌️☺️ #emilyisthebeesknees #dundundunnnnnn #holysmokes #beefitbeeyard #beefitbeekeeping #beefitapiary #beefit #beekind
I am treatment free the Dr. LEO way. Horizontal hive baby...who treats the wild bees???
40%mites / @colony
Your mite counts on the almond hives are going to be low, but thats because they were drenched in taktic/amitraz when you bought the hives.
The mites are in your drones and on your drones.
Those queens havent had enough time to turn over those giant colonies you bought in. The workers in those hives are still very much commercial stock.
Exactly.....👍
Umm what about the rest of the info? Where are all your criticisms? Oh right.
@@Swarmstead what criticisms? She's going to see what happens with treatment free on almond hives...nothing to criticize....her dues will get paid just like the rest of us. Point is, her colonies are going to explode with Varroa because they are junk commercial stock. The mites are in the drones not on her bees...and those queens she put in aren't the cause of her 1%.
I want to know what happened to all of her colonies she didn't buy in and how are they doing. Why are we only hearing about almond hives? How'd the last treatment free bees do?
@@Swarmstead hey Bruce how bout you make another video about everything that's wrong with everything she said so we can get it right on how to criticize people...
@@JamesLeesBees she has zero (0) established survival stock. The cutout will probably abscond. She doesn't know what treatment free beekeeping is, that's why she keeps ignorantly misrepresenting it. The question isn't "How'd the treatment free bees do?" It's "How does commercial stock hold up when not propped up?" But I see what you did there.
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Stop using foundation and you will never have another mite problem!!!