Hello Sheri and David. At this point I've watch well over 100 videos and reading a lot to prepare for spring. Once again, I've proven that by watching one of your videos, I'll pick up nuggets of knowledge I didn't know. Thanks for sharing your experience. ✌️🖖
I love your live shows David, bummed I had to miss last night's episode. Great topic, way more important than some of us understand - thanks for showing us the light!
Just saw the video you did with FL state guy. My OA vaporizer shows up Friday. I opened up some drone cells and found I had more then I wanted and now I know to use 2-4 grams per brood box. I open the drones so I don't have to kill 300 productive bees just a few drones that don't contribute
I’ve been using Lume unscented deodorant cream on my hands to help keep my hands from sweating in my gloves and it seems to be helping and the bees seem fine with it.
Hello David I'm a big fan of your videos I'm wondering if instead of using a drone comb if you just remove lets say 90% of the drone cells through out the year
With testing for mites 1x per month in Jul-Sept as well as breaking the queens brood cycle for 1wk/month Jul-Sept does it matter if you test before or after breaking the cycle or just as long as you’re consistent with testing either before or after?
It is always important to test every 30 days so you know what your numbers are. Then by breaking the brood cycle you can determine if this prevented a great expansion of mites or not.
Are ticks in the same family can tics go into a hive and eat bees? I've just started to find tics on me this week at my land and I also think my queen might be gone
I don't understand why anyone would risk using a screen bottom board to control anything. What's the point of even having an entrance reducer then if your bottom two square feet are wide open? All of a sudden every single insect in Kingdom Come can just waltz right in. I want to keep ants flies beetles and spiders out not just give them free pass. Someone please explain. It's kind of urgent I just started a split with only three frames in a 10 frame deep and it only has a screen bottom board someone had given me and I need to know if I need to make a solid bottom board ASAP to keep insects out. I've got pink styrofoam on top of the screen but something chewed holes in it a couple years ago so it's not perfectly solid. It has half a dozen golf ball-sized holes throughout it
I just did a powder sugar test on a brood honey frame it was next to the brood frame. I only got about 50 bees and there were 10 mites and a beetle is that a bad ratio I can't remember what you said about that
We want to be below 3 mites per 100 bees which would be a 3% infestation. If you have 10 mites per 50 bees that is an infestation level of 20% which is extremely, extremely high.
Hello Sheri and David. At this point I've watch well over 100 videos and reading a lot to prepare for spring. Once again, I've proven that by watching one of your videos, I'll pick up nuggets of knowledge I didn't know. Thanks for sharing your experience.
✌️🖖
Thank you ! Another wonderful educational experience!!!😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your live shows David, bummed I had to miss last night's episode. Great topic, way more important than some of us understand - thanks for showing us the light!
Just saw the video you did with FL state guy. My OA vaporizer shows up Friday. I opened up some drone cells and found I had more then I wanted and now I know to use 2-4 grams per brood box. I open the drones so I don't have to kill 300 productive bees just a few drones that don't contribute
I’ve been using Lume unscented deodorant cream on my hands to help keep my hands from sweating in my gloves and it seems to be helping and the bees seem fine with it.
Hello David I'm a big fan of your videos I'm wondering if instead of using a drone comb if you just remove lets say 90% of the drone cells through out the year
I missed this live stream by several hours. I would be more likely to catch a live stream on Tuesdays 1 hour later your usual time.
Thanks, good to know
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I missed the live unfortunately is it true that fungi mushrooms is potentialy helping with mites also ?
Research is being done but who knows.
With testing for mites 1x per month in Jul-Sept as well as breaking the queens brood cycle for 1wk/month Jul-Sept does it matter if you test before or after breaking the cycle or just as long as you’re consistent with testing either before or after?
It is always important to test every 30 days so you know what your numbers are. Then by breaking the brood cycle you can determine if this prevented a great expansion of mites or not.
Are ticks in the same family can tics go into a hive and eat bees? I've just started to find tics on me this week at my land and I also think my queen might be gone
Ticks are not a problem for bees. The ticks you see on you need a much larger host that a bee.
I don't understand why anyone would risk using a screen bottom board to control anything. What's the point of even having an entrance reducer then if your bottom two square feet are wide open? All of a sudden every single insect in Kingdom Come can just waltz right in. I want to keep ants flies beetles and spiders out not just give them free pass. Someone please explain. It's kind of urgent I just started a split with only three frames in a 10 frame deep and it only has a screen bottom board someone had given me and I need to know if I need to make a solid bottom board ASAP to keep insects out. I've got pink styrofoam on top of the screen but something chewed holes in it a couple years ago so it's not perfectly solid. It has half a dozen golf ball-sized holes throughout it
Most bugs stay away from bees and beside the most deadly of all things to enter the hive rides in on bees...varroa destructor.
I just did a powder sugar test on a brood honey frame it was next to the brood frame. I only got about 50 bees and there were 10 mites and a beetle is that a bad ratio I can't remember what you said about that
We want to be below 3 mites per 100 bees which would be a 3% infestation. If you have 10 mites per 50 bees that is an infestation level of 20% which is extremely, extremely high.
Washboarding is probably a punishment for bad behavior of the young bees the queen disciplining the youngsters 😂