HOW and WHY to test for MITES in your beehive
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In this video, I explore the benefits of Integrated Pest Management, and show you the most effective way that you can test for mites in your hive so that you can better prevent your varroa mite populations from growing out of control in your beehive.
Join me on my adventure of beekeeping, as I climb the learning curve and do my best to treat these bees right.
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I really enjoy your videos. I'm learning alot and this was a great explanation of the mite check.
I'd be interested to see how the "sugar shake" method works if you do a check later in the season.
Hi thanks for your kind comment! I'd love to do a sugar shake comparison later in the season, that's a great idea :)
I would never do this, but i enjoy watching you do it and all the great inforamation you give. New subbie here😊
Thanks for the sub, I appreciate your watching!
Thank you for your information,
I just want to add one point to make beter results, when you finshe appling the alcohol wash you need to do water wash twice on the same sample, i think you will have more accurate result.
My best wishes
Thank you so much for your suggestion! I'll be sure to try that next time :)
when you say water wash, do you mean inspect the alcohol wash, and then drain that and then rinse the bees in just water? (x2?)
@@JeanLaValley I believe that's what they meant, at least, that's how I took it.
@@JeanLaValley exactly, because some mits will stick to the bees body even if both are dead, farther more you can put the dead bees on a paper and count them to have accurate percentage of mits load.
One more thing when you shake the frame do not cover the container with towel and let the field bees to fly back to the hive because your target is the nurse bees which still unable to fly yet because the
mits are prefering the nurse bees than the field bees
Best regards Jean
Dawn dish liquid works instantly and it’s cheaper than alcohol if you are looking for ways to save money raising bees 😊
Do you watch Fred Dunn or Kamon Reynolds ? Those two guys are really good to get tips from, the way to bee is Fred’s platform and he has all kinds of guest interviews with entomologists and experts in the bee field and Fred responds to questions, which after 50 years you would think I’ve ran out of questions to ask as far as bees are concerned , but this is not true , I still have plenty of questions 😊
I watch Fred Dunn, can't say I've seen any of Kamon Reynolds stuff, but it's really good/helpful content. Thanks for the suggestion
可以改用細沙糖，會有一樣的效果，又不會殺死蜜蜂。