Oy, that is the heaviest mite infestation I have ever seen, just wow. If you want to see if there is a die off or if there are dead brood being extracted and discarded, you will find what you seek by going out and looking at the landing boards before sunrise. As soon as the bees are warmed up and flying, they carry off the dead and near-dead colony mates. Most keepers see only the clean landing boards during the day. I hope you have a lot of success with your bees. I would honestly be very concerned about that mite load, but I know you are treating so you may have actually saved your colony. Remember, they fly away with the dead so you don't generally see a lot of dead bees in the immediate vicinity.
Thanks for that information. I will try to get out early and get some footage of the morning bees clearing the hive. I plan on checking the brood more closely this weekend to see if there were any casualties. I appreciate your comments.
Frederick Dunn you are one of the most knowledgeable bee keepers I have seen. And I think it's awesome that you are so humble to help this young bee keepers with some solid advise... his colony looks nice and healthy. Thank you for taking the time to help a fellow beekeeper!
I've watched a few of your videos and Vino Farm's as well and you both are quite inspirational. Ever since I started watching I've gotten addicted to honeybees and how they operate. Can't wait to have my own one day. Will have to keep learning for when that day comes. Thanks so much to both you, Vino Farm and all the others out there like you.
I'm glad you decided to treat and that the MAQS's worked out well for you. Good choice. I could tell you had a heavy mite load and am not surprised by the number of mites that dropped. My mite load was even worse than that last fall.
Great video! Thank you for posting and your thoughts around following the label!! 🐝 Do a mite level check on Day+16 as by then all of the bees that were capped, during the treatment, will have emerged and with them dead mites too.
Hey Jim. I am glad the MAQS worked so well for you. It's great to see results like that. It was also fun to see those bees marching back to the hive from the medium box. It's so weird that they refused to build in that box. I wonder why. Maybe they will use it next year after being established for a while. Keep up the good work.
I don't know about you but I just went from feeling these bees didn't have what it takes to make it through the winter to feeling very optimistic. Great job on treating your bees, I'm happy for you!
Same here! I was scared and procrastinated about opening the hive the other day. I didn't want to see a dead queen or an empty hive. I was very, very happy after I saw the results!
You will lose a some brood but they seem to rebound after treatment quickly. Your mite load was quite high. You should check the count again in 3-4 weeks with a sugar roll or alcohol wash. You may need to treat again before winter. If the mite count is reasonable you can also knock them back with oxalic in November/dec when they are broodless. Great video!!
you went from novice to beginner!! nice job with the flow hive. have been watching since day 1. i want bees next spring and am doing my research until then. thanks for these educational videos! -future bee keeper Jazzy
Awesome job bro! Happy to see positive results. You have me wanting to treat and I just got my bees Thursday. I have a flow hive and a 5 frame nuc stack.
I was amazed at the results! I will have to see how MAQS can work in a Top Bar beehive. I did not treat this year, so hopefully they will make it through the winter. Keep up with the amazing videos!
I bet you were relieved after checking the hive. Lots of dead varroa and no noticable dead bees, very positive result! I am still really enjoying watching your progress with beekeeping.
I think you did an excellent job nothing to worry about. There just Very active because they know that this is The last flow and they're trying to gather as much pollen and nectar for The Winter
If Formic Acid is so effective against the veroa - would it be a good idea to just wet the edges of all the frames with formic acid as spring warms up? And what about soak new frames with FA?
Varroa have an annoying ability to adapt to ignore the things that kill them. That's why beekeepers don't leave anything like that year round. Or why they switch what kind they are using often
I recently started watching your videos from the start and i was honestly worried about the bees. I am so glad the treatment worked perfectly. Varoa mites can kill off entire colonies within a year if left untreated. I definitely would have treated their mite infestation the moment i saw a single mite as you never know how many there actually are if you only see one mite when there could be way more you cant see. P.s i love watching your videos and ive grown very attatched to your bees.
Hi-great video. You sound like such a great bee parent... Well, I don't have a hive yet, just bees in the west wall of my house...so I'm quite busy learning and will hopefully join you and the other beekeepers very soon... I was unsure of why you removed both the medium and the flow box? Was it to allow the bees to be close together for added warmth and insulation from cold night weather? I wanted to mention that I've heard some beekeepers express the benefit of having extra space (such as your medium frame) so the queen doesn't get crowded and start laying in the wrong places or slow down her production due to limited resources... (You may have even said the same thing.) And since you do have the medium already available, the medium could allow them to spread out a bit if needed. I thought of that--since you mentioned that there is a "flow" and that the bees are very busy bringing back pollen from goldenrod, wildflowers, and the blooming apple trees. Anyway--just a thought... :) Amazing that the MAQS worked so well. Ugh, I hate the idea of bees having to deal with mites. That must bother them and might even be painful if the mites bite. So--the weather here is in the 90's and that will probably last through the month of September. Do you think I can still transfer my wild bees from my exterior west wall into a hive? Thank you for your wonderful, honest videos, acknowledging your successes, your questions, your dilemmas, challenges, and even haha, scary mistakes. :) :)
you need to add a fully drawn medium frame if you want the bees to fill in the rest. I've done the same thing with no success. added a drawn medium and bees started to fill in the rest.
We don't have mite here in Australia but good to know about the issues that beekeepers have just incase it makes it here , hopefully we never have to deal with mites we do however have hive Beatle, efb and AFB bad enough if you ask me
Pretty much exactly the same results I had with MAQS, such a relief when you see the queen on the first inspection post-treatment! I found the mites continued to drop for another 4-5days after the 7-day treatment period, I guess from the bees cleaning dead ones out of the brood cells. Only things I did differently to you were that I didn't stagger the brood boxes, and I added a piece of paper towel with honey bee healthy on it as I'd heard it reduced the risk of absconding during treatment. Don't know if either of those things made a difference but I'm happy with the results either way, glad to see MAQS worked out for you too. :)
Unless there is a robbing going on, there's literally nothing going on in the back of a hive. When another hive is robbing, they swarm the hive and try getting into every crack and crevice. That's how you know for sure a hive is being robbed... Got a bunch of bees hanging around in the back trying to get in? It's a robbing.
a pointer for the future... when placing a box on its side, place it so the frames hang vertically. especially when using foundationless frames. one seriously hot day with soft wax hanging without support and the wax is gone. or it can just warp. squish bees. just a bunch of not nice.
That box was a box of empty frames. They had built no comb in there whatsoever and I wanted to give the bees an easy exit! Thanks for your comments today and for watching all those videos!
even with empty frames. put a box on its side that way and the frames can easily fall out, but put down on its end, the frame will wedge itself in before it falls. i have made enough messes in my days.
Are you sure they won't need that medium box if there's a some flow time left? I couldn't quite tell but it looked like all the frames in your two deeps were full of comb. Will they not need at least a medium full of honey to get through the winter? I am just finishing reading The Backyard Beekeeper and am about to start Michael Bush's book, in preparation for a spring start. I was worried about your bees and had been anxiously awaiting your update. Glad it worked so well! Might be time to try some foundation frames for the top to see if that gets them building and storing up there? Or maybe just a foundation strip across the top?
For the same reason you don't wear dark clothing, you might want to consider light colored nitrile gloves. Black will attract! Just a helpful hint so you reduce the chances of getting stung in your hands. That hurts.
Hello, great video. I just have one quick note - even from the video it's obvious there are ants around and they have access to the hive. When level of varroa is on the level as it was now, you don't need to worry. But once the level will be lower ants may change the results of your monitoring - they are trying to grab dead varroa and that might cause false negative result. It's not sure but they can steal even honey. There are few ways how to make ant-protective stand. Seems like you made a lot of steps forward after your first videos of broken comb. Good luck in future!
I see ants often, but it has never been an alarming infestation. And they're tiny ones, not large aggressive ones. I am probably going to re-design my stand next spring when I start adding hives. I will take the ant issue into consideration. Thanks!
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As I wrote - it's just note I realised as the only possible problem. Not suggestion or concern. Good luck in next season! I hope you still plan to make videos!
Chippy The Squirrel Hi Chippy, this is something Wikipedia could do a fantastic job explaining, but since you're a squirrel, I'll give you the nutshell answer... Varroa mites infest a hive, breed inside honeycomb brood cells, suck the hemolymph of adult bees and spread a cocktail of diseases which can completely destroy a hive. They are the worst. They are present in just about every bee colony in the world (except In Australia.)
Make your life easier and for the bees and get some wax frame inserts, gives them a huge head start and keeps your frames nice and even. I like the wax inserts better than the plastic so you can still cut out whole comb that way.
I've transitioned to wax-coated plastic inserts for my second season. They were much better off. I may experiment with all wax inserts at some point. Thanks for watching.
I have just begin in this bee hobby and I got a nuc I have already found varroa mite ,I have put sugar power into the hive and many mites have fall down,but I am sure that many are still into the cell,I have both bayvarol strips.hope it kill the mites,the local vet said that we must change product and not use same one over and over again as mite may get used to it and the product wont work.
Hopefully next year. I made a video about 6 weeks ago explaining why I decided not to put them in this year. Look in my playlist for a video with "decision" in the title.
Hi! I'm not familiar with MAQS and since, as you said, you don't know if it also got the mites inside the cells, will you treat one more time before you close up for the season?
MAQS is supposed to get inside the cells. I just didn't check that day because I didn't want to disturb the bees after the trauma of a week of formic acid. I'm going to let them work for a week and then I'll go in and have a look at a few cells to see if the brood is alive. I also cleaned off the bottom board so I will catch any mites that fall over the next week. MAQS is not something you repeat right away like Oxalic. MAQS is usually done in the fall and again in spring with the dosage I used (2 strips). Here is the full info: nodglobal.com/application-usa/
You say you didn't "think" you had a heavy mite load. Did you ever test any other way besides dropped mites on what you called an inspection board? You can get a much better idea by using a sugar roll or an alcohol wash, as recommended by such institutions as the University of Minnesota Bee Lab. Then you don't have to think or guess, you can get a pretty good idea of what your infestation is and you can test again after your treatment so you'll know how effective it was and whether you need to take further action. I always like to keep a pretty sharp eye on the mite loads of my colonies, and sometimes they surprise me. Sometimes I think one thing and the test shows the opposite, and it goes both ways. I'm not being critical, please don't take it that way, and if you DID test in a more accurate way than just looking at the drop rate, great. If not, do please consider adding that to your arsenal of weapons against these insidious arachnids. Nice video and best of luck to you!
hello (VinoFarm) good morning ^^ please can u tell me when u put the strips in winter or in summer? sorry my English is bad :D ..... that video really good thanks !!
Put some quick strips up one box to encourage them to move up! Who did you get your bees from... I sure don't want to order from them... talk about unethical! Queens can abandon their nest if its to infected with mites!
Woa. Pulling a frame out of the center is bad. Start by prying seven frames to one side thus giving you lots of wiggle room to pull the one on the edge. Start doing it right bubba. Lose the black gloves.
Those first two frames were glued together all the way down with brace comb so I went for the third frame. I've learned not to do that again. Also, only wore those gloves because I was handling the formic acid. I don't normally wear gloves.
Oy, that is the heaviest mite infestation I have ever seen, just wow. If you want to see if there is a die off or if there are dead brood being extracted and discarded, you will find what you seek by going out and looking at the landing boards before sunrise. As soon as the bees are warmed up and flying, they carry off the dead and near-dead colony mates. Most keepers see only the clean landing boards during the day. I hope you have a lot of success with your bees. I would honestly be very concerned about that mite load, but I know you are treating so you may have actually saved your colony. Remember, they fly away with the dead so you don't generally see a lot of dead bees in the immediate vicinity.
Thanks for that information. I will try to get out early and get some footage of the morning bees clearing the hive. I plan on checking the brood more closely this weekend to see if there were any casualties. I appreciate your comments.
Vino Farm You will be addicted to early morning observations... trust me :)
Frederick Dunn you are one of the most knowledgeable bee keepers I have seen. And I think it's awesome that you are so humble to help this young bee keepers with some solid advise... his colony looks nice and healthy. Thank you for taking the time to help a fellow beekeeper!
JuGGtimus1 Thank you so much! :)
I've watched a few of your videos and Vino Farm's as well and you both are quite inspirational. Ever since I started watching I've gotten addicted to honeybees and how they operate. Can't wait to have my own one day. Will have to keep learning for when that day comes. Thanks so much to both you, Vino Farm and all the others out there like you.
I'm glad you decided to treat and that the MAQS's worked out well for you. Good choice. I could tell you had a heavy mite load and am not surprised by the number of mites that dropped. My mite load was even worse than that last fall.
Great video! Thank you for posting and your thoughts around following the label!! 🐝 Do a mite level check on Day+16 as by then all of the bees that were capped, during the treatment, will have emerged and with them dead mites too.
Thanks for the tip! Your product is excellent! (^^^These are the people that make MAQS!)
So happy for you. I was so relieved when I saw the Queen was ok.
So happy it worked! I'm viewing your hive as my "control" hive (like I have two!) Thanks again for sharing your experience!
Outstanding! I applaud your decision to treat. Your results are stupendous. Good going there.
YEAHHHHHH !!!! Such a satisfying moment for the viewer! GREAT MOVE!
Varroa: 0
Vino Farm: 1
Well done! Congratulations! I 'm impressed! You gave MAQS thumbs up, so I give one thumb up to your video . You are a great performer!
Thank you, sir!
I'm not a sir, I'm just a simple man and a simple farmer :))
+imker foldissimo isnt the Nassenheider dispenser much more safer and reliable? i heard a lot about killing a whole hive with the strips
Hey Jim. I am glad the MAQS worked so well for you. It's great to see results like that. It was also fun to see those bees marching back to the hive from the medium box. It's so weird that they refused to build in that box. I wonder why. Maybe they will use it next year after being established for a while. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for posting this , I am learning a lot
I don't know about you but I just went from feeling these bees didn't have what it takes to make it through the winter to feeling very optimistic. Great job on treating your bees, I'm happy for you!
Same here! I was scared and procrastinated about opening the hive the other day. I didn't want to see a dead queen or an empty hive. I was very, very happy after I saw the results!
You will lose a some brood but they seem to rebound after treatment quickly. Your mite load was quite high. You should check the count again in 3-4 weeks with a sugar roll or alcohol wash. You may need to treat again before winter. If the mite count is reasonable you can also knock them back with oxalic in November/dec when they are broodless. Great video!!
I like your precision and attention to detail. Very inspiring!
Awww I'm so happy for you. your hive looks happy and healthy. great job!
Good job!! You did the right thing!
you went from novice to beginner!! nice job with the flow hive. have been watching since day 1. i want bees next spring and am doing my research until then. thanks for these educational videos!
-future bee keeper Jazzy
Stay on the tube and watch the bee Vlog
Hive looks great.
Awesome job bro! Happy to see positive results. You have me wanting to treat and I just got my bees Thursday. I have a flow hive and a 5 frame nuc stack.
Great video, thanks from a newbee
I was amazed at the results! I will have to see how MAQS can work in a Top Bar beehive. I did not treat this year, so hopefully they will make it through the winter. Keep up with the amazing videos!
Watch for swarm cells. With so many drone cells they could be getting ready to swarm on you.
I bet you were relieved after checking the hive. Lots of dead varroa and no noticable dead bees, very positive result! I am still really enjoying watching your progress with beekeeping.
Perfect results!
Well done dead mites happy bees all is good.
I think you did an excellent job nothing to worry about. There just Very active because they know that this is The last flow and they're trying to gather as much pollen and nectar for The Winter
that just proves even though you don't see mites, they are still there and doing damage.
Exactly. I had no idea there were that many. And there will certainly be more as the bees clean dead mites out of the brood cells. Amazing.
If Formic Acid is so effective against the veroa - would it be a good idea to just wet the edges of all the frames with formic acid as spring warms up?
And what about soak new frames with FA?
Varroa have an annoying ability to adapt to ignore the things that kill them. That's why beekeepers don't leave anything like that year round. Or why they switch what kind they are using often
"Let the bees get their vibe back." Beautiful :-)
I ordered MAQS, also changing my hives to screened bottom boards.
Thanks for video great info. .first year beekeeping. .helped me make my decision
Great Vids... Thanks!
I recently started watching your videos from the start and i was honestly worried about the bees. I am so glad the treatment worked perfectly. Varoa mites can kill off entire colonies within a year if left untreated. I definitely would have treated their mite infestation the moment i saw a single mite as you never know how many there actually are if you only see one mite when there could be way more you cant see.
P.s i love watching your videos and ive grown very attatched to your bees.
Nice! Glad to see that the treatment worked so well. Also, thank you for the Celsius-degrees. :)
Hi-great video. You sound like such a great bee parent...
Well, I don't have a hive yet, just bees in the west wall of my house...so I'm quite busy learning and will hopefully join you and the other beekeepers very soon...
I was unsure of why you removed both the medium and the flow box? Was it to allow the bees to be close together for added warmth and insulation from cold night weather?
I wanted to mention that I've heard some beekeepers express the benefit of having extra space (such as your medium frame) so the queen doesn't get crowded and start laying in the wrong places or slow down her production due to limited resources... (You may have even said the same thing.) And since you do have the medium already available, the medium could allow them to spread out a bit if needed. I thought of that--since you mentioned that there is a "flow" and that the bees are very busy bringing back pollen from goldenrod, wildflowers, and the blooming apple trees. Anyway--just a thought... :)
Amazing that the MAQS worked so well. Ugh, I hate the idea of bees having to deal with mites. That must bother them and might even be painful if the mites bite.
So--the weather here is in the 90's and that will probably last through the month of September. Do you think I can still transfer my wild bees from my exterior west wall into a hive?
Thank you for your wonderful, honest videos, acknowledging your successes, your questions, your dilemmas, challenges, and even haha, scary mistakes. :) :)
great results, im glad your hive is still going strong!
Big round of applause!!!!!!! Yahoo!!!!
100-200 mites
1000-2000 mites more likely XD I think you made a very good decision!
you need to add a fully drawn medium frame if you want the bees to fill in the rest. I've done the same thing with no success. added a drawn medium and bees started to fill in the rest.
We don't have mite here in Australia but good to know about the issues that beekeepers have just incase it makes it here , hopefully we never have to deal with mites we do however have hive Beatle, efb and AFB bad enough if you ask me
You look so much better nowadays with your beard
Your so young here lol
And have learned so much more
I agree
Pretty much exactly the same results I had with MAQS, such a relief when you see the queen on the first inspection post-treatment!
I found the mites continued to drop for another 4-5days after the 7-day treatment period, I guess from the bees cleaning dead ones out of the brood cells.
Only things I did differently to you were that I didn't stagger the brood boxes, and I added a piece of paper towel with honey bee healthy on it as I'd heard it reduced the risk of absconding during treatment. Don't know if either of those things made a difference but I'm happy with the results either way, glad to see MAQS worked out for you too. :)
Now you know why you should treat aug 1 with maqs and follow up in mid sept with oxalic
WOW!
Where are the flow super frames?
How did your bees survived that Many mites
I got my wish to see the back!!! :) I was stunned when you pulled the board out. :o
Unless there is a robbing going on, there's literally nothing going on in the back of a hive. When another hive is robbing, they swarm the hive and try getting into every crack and crevice. That's how you know for sure a hive is being robbed... Got a bunch of bees hanging around in the back trying to get in? It's a robbing.
a pointer for the future... when placing a box on its side, place it so the frames hang vertically. especially when using foundationless frames. one seriously hot day with soft wax hanging without support and the wax is gone. or it can just warp. squish bees. just a bunch of not nice.
That box was a box of empty frames. They had built no comb in there whatsoever and I wanted to give the bees an easy exit! Thanks for your comments today and for watching all those videos!
even with empty frames. put a box on its side that way and the frames can easily fall out, but put down on its end, the frame will wedge itself in before it falls. i have made enough messes in my days.
Are you sure they won't need that medium box if there's a some flow time left? I couldn't quite tell but it looked like all the frames in your two deeps were full of comb. Will they not need at least a medium full of honey to get through the winter? I am just finishing reading The Backyard Beekeeper and am about to start Michael Bush's book, in preparation for a spring start. I was worried about your bees and had been anxiously awaiting your update. Glad it worked so well!
Might be time to try some foundation frames for the top to see if that gets them building and storing up there? Or maybe just a foundation strip across the top?
Check the wings of your newborn... if you notice any deformation they could have thoracic larvae!
For the same reason you don't wear dark clothing, you might want to consider light colored nitrile gloves. Black will attract! Just a helpful hint so you reduce the chances of getting stung in your hands. That hurts.
What a wonderful colony and great video!
We just started keeping bees this year, and I was wondering if you still use these strips?
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Hello, great video. I just have one quick note - even from the video it's obvious there are ants around and they have access to the hive. When level of varroa is on the level as it was now, you don't need to worry. But once the level will be lower ants may change the results of your monitoring - they are trying to grab dead varroa and that might cause false negative result. It's not sure but they can steal even honey. There are few ways how to make ant-protective stand.
Seems like you made a lot of steps forward after your first videos of broken comb. Good luck in future!
I see ants often, but it has never been an alarming infestation. And they're tiny ones, not large aggressive ones. I am probably going to re-design my stand next spring when I start adding hives. I will take the ant issue into consideration. Thanks!
As I wrote - it's just note I realised as the only possible problem. Not suggestion or concern. Good luck in next season! I hope you still plan to make videos!
I'm a noob here. First, what are varroa mites? Second, what is the significance of them being in a hive? Are they harmful to the bees?
Chippy The Squirrel Hi Chippy, this is something Wikipedia could do a fantastic job explaining, but since you're a squirrel, I'll give you the nutshell answer... Varroa mites infest a hive, breed inside honeycomb brood cells, suck the hemolymph of adult bees and spread a cocktail of diseases which can completely destroy a hive. They are the worst. They are present in just about every bee colony in the world (except In Australia.)
[7:40] Move bees, get out the way! Get out the way bees! Get out the way!
I thought you were supposed to treat for 3 weeks in a row like replace the strips every 7 days?
Treatment is a single application for 7 days only! Organically certified too 🐝
Make your life easier and for the bees and get some wax frame inserts, gives them a huge head start and keeps your frames nice and even. I like the wax inserts better than the plastic so you can still cut out whole comb that way.
I've transitioned to wax-coated plastic inserts for my second season. They were much better off. I may experiment with all wax inserts at some point. Thanks for watching.
crushed it!!
do the quick strips go inside the cell?
mario camilleri Look at the 12 minute mark. They are thin pads that lay across the frames.
i mean they kill the mite that is inside the cell?
mario camilleri Sorry. Yes, the formic acid will kill mites inside capped cells.
I have just begin in this bee hobby and I got a nuc I have already found varroa mite ,I have put sugar power into the hive and many mites have fall down,but I am sure that many are still into the cell,I have both bayvarol strips.hope it kill the mites,the local vet said that we must change product and not use same one over and over again as mite may get used to it and the product wont work.
when are you considering putting the flow frames in?
Hopefully next year. I made a video about 6 weeks ago explaining why I decided not to put them in this year. Look in my playlist for a video with "decision" in the title.
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Wow nice good job (Viro Farm) ^^ that pretty cool trap ... How do u make the trap it could help me alot !! You really put important videos!
You bees will always be more active once the mites are gone...wouldnt you be?
I don't see test varroa
Hi! I'm not familiar with MAQS and since, as you said, you don't know if it also got the mites inside the cells, will you treat one more time before you close up for the season?
MAQS is supposed to get inside the cells. I just didn't check that day because I didn't want to disturb the bees after the trauma of a week of formic acid. I'm going to let them work for a week and then I'll go in and have a look at a few cells to see if the brood is alive. I also cleaned off the bottom board so I will catch any mites that fall over the next week. MAQS is not something you repeat right away like Oxalic. MAQS is usually done in the fall and again in spring with the dosage I used (2 strips). Here is the full info: nodglobal.com/application-usa/
+Vino Farm Ah ok! Thanks for the response and keep up the good work!
You say you didn't "think" you had a heavy mite load. Did you ever test any other way besides dropped mites on what you called an inspection board? You can get a much better idea by using a sugar roll or an alcohol wash, as recommended by such institutions as the University of Minnesota Bee Lab. Then you don't have to think or guess, you can get a pretty good idea of what your infestation is and you can test again after your treatment so you'll know how effective it was and whether you need to take further action. I always like to keep a pretty sharp eye on the mite loads of my colonies, and sometimes they surprise me. Sometimes I think one thing and the test shows the opposite, and it goes both ways. I'm not being critical, please don't take it that way, and if you DID test in a more accurate way than just looking at the drop rate, great. If not, do please consider adding that to your arsenal of weapons against these insidious arachnids. Nice video and best of luck to you!
Awesome 😎
thanks for sharing mate. dead mites!
Man oh man ... Your hive was really heavily infested !
This guys is such a pea shooter
I wish I knew what that meant.
@@vinofarm a metaphor; plants vs zombies. Just attacking the fear and horrible things like zombies in life. Never backing down.
Ever try Russian or VSH bees
Check out my recent videos. I have VSH bees doing well and a Russian hive that just re-queened itself.
hello (VinoFarm) good morning ^^ please can u tell me when u put the strips in winter or in summer? sorry my English is bad :D ..... that video really good thanks !!
The strips go in at the end of summer. احمد الاذينه
just ones a year?
No wonder yor bees die in the winter.
Aren't you glad that you did not sugar your bee?
I'm just glad the treatment I researched and decided on was successful. Very happy to have living bees and dead mites.
Me too!
For every 1 mite you see there is 50 you don't.
More like thousands have died
Wow... thats sad... complain to your supplier... no way should your bees have come with that many mites!
Put some quick strips up one box to encourage them to move up!
Who did you get your bees from... I sure don't want to order from them... talk about unethical!
Queens can abandon their nest if its to infected with mites!
Woa. Pulling a frame out of the center is bad. Start by prying seven frames to one side thus giving you lots of wiggle room to pull the one on the edge. Start doing it right bubba. Lose the black gloves.
Those first two frames were glued together all the way down with brace comb so I went for the third frame. I've learned not to do that again. Also, only wore those gloves because I was handling the formic acid. I don't normally wear gloves.