How to Treat Varroa with Essential Oils: Apiguard, Api Life Var, and Thymovar

This video shows you how to use three essential oil products to treat varroa mites: Apiguard, Api Life Var, and Thymovar. The active ingredient in Apiguard is thymol. Api Life Var contains four essential oils: thymol, eucalyptus, menthol, and camphor. In Canada, Thymovar is the approved essential oil treatment product.
These essential oil treatments can be effective for varroa mites within an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach. They use natural substances as their active ingredients. Always resample after treatment to confirm that the treatment worked.
This is the third in a series of short videos from the Honey Bee Health Coalition on how to manage varroa mites successfully.
Why should you effectively manage varroa mites in your honey bee colonies? Every honey bee colony in North America either has varroa mites or will in just a few months. When colonies are not treated, or are treated ineffectively, they weaken and may be more susceptible to other negative factors, such as pesticide damage, virus infections, and other maladies. Failure to control mites endangers not only your colonies but also colonies in other apiaries and feral honey bees in your area. Widespread colony deaths can cause major economic damage for beekeepers and harm essential agricultural pollination services.
Whether you have a few colonies or you manage large apiaries, these videos show practical steps you can use to better control varroa mites.
LINKS:
The Honey Bee Health Coalition: honeybeehealthcoalition.org
More varroa resources: honeybeehealthcoalition.org/v...

[@KingLama1]

Essential watching and understanding to manage your bees, keep them healthy and prepared to resist Varroa. New BeeKeepers this is a must watch... Plkus avoid stressing your bees, have good Queens for strong healthy colonies

[@sandrajkarlberg3789]

Can I use aluminum foil to make a dosing tray for Apiguard?

[@bradgoliphant]

It all sounds like the best way to treat, yet actually, new studies are showing that essential oils are coating bees and disrupting several of their natural functions, like navigation. But we are in a tight squeeze here, because every treatment has its drawbacks. Oxalic Acid seems to the the kindest not he bees. But who knows. Just go easy with our little friends, and take good care.

[@thethrivinghive2560]

Trolling much, you post this on all the videos I was looking at today.

[@bradgoliphant]

@@thethrivinghive2560 I know. I often ask a question to several trusted beekeepers and often only get one answer

[@Dredster747]

@@thethrivinghive2560 How was that AT ALL a trolling question?

[@shanncap]

These aren't essential oils. Essential oil treatment won't kill brood or poison honey. Fix your title.

[@PhillipHall01]

Shame for false advertising!!! Unless you can show this is "essential oils"!! Shame

[@sundownerwhoopwhoop5016]

This vid has nothing to do with oils

[@coziii.1829]

Wow this is poisons not oils ...good grief why lie.

[@aanadyia4582]

Apiguard ingredients: 25% thymol 75% Other ingredients