Recent content by Hachi

Neither do I, but when you ask.........

The accepted doctrine is a count >10 over a 7 day period risks losing the hive to a mite infestation. This hen becomes you goal doesn't it?

Hell no

I guess what I'm saying [badly] is to stop and risks losing the hives. Surely on the balance of probabilities it is wiser to keep battling than give up completely, but hey they aint my bee's.

I helped a friend vape their hives, they bottled it too when drops got to a hundred. From one hive with a mite drop well into 4 figure drops. They lost all 9 hives that winter; they were crushed.

Phone your area Assoc or the neighbouring one. If you're truly stuck PM/DM me and I'll see if I can help

Local corner shop might even pick up an old one for the price of a pkt biccy's

There's more than one, two legged variety guilty of that

Look at the indirect consequences of introducing mixy to the UK you'll be amazed what it did to OUR Eco system....

Pay for it if you have to. Alternatively, build a "watering" system you can deploy once a year. There are options

Bit of a mixed bag, one creature/virus etc to defeat another, history is dotted with the body counts.

C r a p happens, fill slowly or slower and just clean it out and try again.

Another storm in a teacup from someone with more time on their hands than they should. Where I used to live we had a burner on a farm that deposited ash over everything in a wide radius. Just couldn't be a r s e d in the end as when it rained bye bye ash.

Noting what you've said above I calculate: Initial drop after 24hrs of 100 Less than 10 [whats that?] 5 per day for five days = 25 therefore total mite drop for 5 days is ....... 125 more or less. So what do YOU think you should do?

Please use some common sense here. The NBU advice is an average of >10 mites drop over 7 days is just about ok whereas >100 mite drop over the same period suggests viability of the hive is in doubt. If you work to these figures which no one is challenging then you will have answered your own...