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What was your mite count Before treating? Most are using 4 grams per deep No more than 5 days apart for 21 days Or in late late fall 2 applications while there are near broodless Also We make strips out of cardboard and soak them in a vegetable glycerin and oxalic acid mixture leave on for 40+days

I believe Jennifer Berrys recent research says that to be effective you need to oav every 2 to 3 days when there is capped brood. Dribble is only done once in winter when broodless. More effective than oav but challenging to do in some environments.

A little advise. I believe your mask is too large, make sure your cartridges are not out of date. And you can check your seal by holding your hands over the cartridge while trying to breath in. Good luck!

Last year (1st year) i only had 2 hives. I had one hive get over run with mites and the other the queen disappeared just after harvist time. I ended up saving my queen from the mite infestation and tossed her into my queenless hive, and thats when I discovered "brood breaks". That hive was super strong in the spring to the point where I did 3 splits and in reality could have done a couple more. With this being my second year and now have 9 hives from catching swarms and doing splits, I'm wondering if its at all possible to pull my queen's and safely save them to the side while doing a brood breaks? Or do I have to requeen? I really like most of my queens performances and dont want to risk getting bad ones. I know if i wait too long to hatch queen cells ill risk not getting them mated since drones start to get booted.

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SHB Swiffer sheets.... simply put them on top of the top bars, and have one end pinned between the box and inner cover or lid so they can't remove it.

Also you should wear sealed goggles also to protect your eyes as they are in danger of exposure also.

According to UGA you would have to do OA every three days for 21 days to get a good kill

Is there a way to attach tubing to the vaporizer? could give you the option of activating it while standing away from the hive.

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Emily I started using peppermint candy on each corner of the hive box. To my surprise it works on getting rid of SHB. So far everyone who has tried it says it works. I also use swifer sheets, put between edge of boxes hanging out a little so bees can't move them. I am very happy so far.

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I'm a Sri Lankan but I know your language but it's a bit difficult to understand your accent. If you have the ability, give a test in English about the method you are doing, otherwise it will be difficult. Also let us know whether you are spraying water or any other liquid. Thank you very much

Good point on the queens from different states. I would think that could possible be a deciding factor on queen performance. Looking forward to see how it turns out.

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What town are you guys located near I'm south of Fort Wayne Indiana 10 mile

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Hey Emily, 1st year bee havre in WNC. Thinking about treating with Apivar first because it has been so dry and hot here, then coming later with Formic-Pro when and if this weather breaks.

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Where do the queens sleep if they are gone for 4 days???

13:50 Supposedly Mites can not develop a resistance to formic or OAV due to the fact that this is not a poison, but rather a physically damaging treatment. For example it is very unlikely any humans could ever develop a resistance to fire. The mode of kill is completely different than methods that mites have developed resistance to.

So fare my drone removal been knocking those mites out as good if not better than chemical treatment.. my first year doing it so will see how things end up.. still planning on chemical treatment in Aug because that's when the mites migrate into the worker brood.. going to treat 10 in each yard with apivar and build up into triples so I have enough in each yard to rebuild it those big units laugh at winter and are ready to split early.. the rest of the production ether doing a formic or requeen with a cell do couple rounds of oav . I can do the same thing as formic by caging the queen for couple weeks save bunch of money doing it.. won't lose anymore production ether way . Maybe I'll try 3 different ones. I want as much honey as possible goldenrod sells really good people with allergies are looking for it . We agree on most things seem spot on imo . Yes just say no to Aug splits only 50% make it and way higher feed bill . Those big triples normally do well on goldenrod if you don't split them in Aug . Just dropped cells in 6 starters fixing to rebuild the rest of the nuc battery before Aug . I make them in July they build up into triple 4 frame boxes normally feed themselves just fine.. I don't have enough frames so Ill just start them in single 4 frame equipment. Needs to stop raining why were seeing efb south of Lapeer. My yards north of Lapeer have more pollen less rain fall. Got like 6" more last night ridiculous two years in row . Last July we broke record rain hopefully we don't repeat it

I have been on board with Joel Salatan lately and he suggests if you can't scale up and down as you might want without having to change your system, your doing something wrong. Mites are easier to manage than I keep hearing.

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Thanks for your great videos. We live in Southern Ontario so virtually the same climate as you. We watch a lot of videos and none seem to recommend leaving bees with full frames of capped honey for the winter. It seems most suggest harvesting as much as you can then simply giving the bees sugar syrup for the winter. Your thoughts.

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I'm a new bee. So I could be entirely wrong. The spotty foundation, add more coating to the undrawn foundation. Use an electric meat carving knives to trim back comb that is drawn out too far into the bee space. I think, if you had split the new frames and foundation between the brood boxes, so you have fresh/drawn/fresh/drawn/fresh/drawn extra. If a fresh one is next to a drawn, they can not draw out into the bee space. That double wide comb,trim it back to proper width and feed the spilt honey back to them. Just my thoughts.

Hi Emily, I'm using Apigaurd now in July, then OA vapor in December, and most important, OAV or Hop gaurd in late April. Thankyou for your fun video. Isn't crazy how life gets in the way, one of the reasons I love beekeeping.

I use a queen excluder on entrance when I have cells getting finished off

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you select for the trait of mating flights?? I'm curious how that is done, what's your statistics for queens that "don't do mating flights you like?" compared to correct mating flights? and how you select for that, then how prominent is that trait? or how you know it's not enviroment and not genetics at all? and what does it matter and how it correlated to survival? As a small TF queen producer I very rigorously test and select for traits I've seen over 6 years., and know that most traits don't get passed on most important,I would never claim any fact over small traits I select for in my very distinct climate and enviroment. I'm curious how you've decided and met this goal over a few years and are so absolute about it you stated it as fact over a you tube video to thousands of people. if you have distinct stats and evidence of these points and most importantly how it correlates to survival please I would love a video of this info and other traits you Breed for and test and have evidence for! I would hope you don't just spew random opinions without any evidence or correlation over a how to you tube channel on beekeeping.

Wonderful 'download' of information Emily...many thanks. I find that because beekeeping is somewhat seasonal...I forget lots of what I've learned and relearn it all (plus abit more) each year 🤣👍

Ive found that yes, the initial startup is expensive. However you can make most of it back in the first years back in honey…

It's too late in the season for all this weird shit you all are doing with all those dinks. Just gonna end up feeding tons of sugar and buying more bees in the spring.

All of my gives face the same direction. I get pelted with bees no matter where I approach or leave from. You can see them come out and change direction. They come out straight a few feet and then curve to their destination. 360 degrees.

Good old fashioned mouse traps with sunflower seeds work best.. i trap ALOT of mice on my land , especially by my hives. ..fyi 1 female mouse can turn into 1000 in a year.

Marla Spivak @ U of Minnisota has researched propolis extensively. She found the major source of propolis in her area was actually secretions from cottonwood tree leaves.

Propolis comes from tree sap yes :)

You don't put bricks on top of your hives?

I went from 3 hives to 8 and might need to split 2 more this year. Waiting on hive boxes from Amazon 🥵. It's been expensive this year

Thank you for this fabulous, detailed information. I had figured I would have to give up on wax production til next year, but I’m going to keep at it now.