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IMO it isn't because common sense is not present, people who sue know very well what they are doing. And apparently, as they always spout, "it is not for the money" (sarcasm). If it is not for the money then sue for 5 bucks not 5 million. They know very well that the MacDonald's coffee was hot...

I bet you might be right. We had -40C winter and a swarm of bees in a draughty unheated plank shed wall 3/4" thick with gaps, no upper insulation let alone side wall insulation, multiple entrances both upper and lower, and it survived until March 4th when it succumbed to starvation or mites.

Absolutely theoretical. I was offering it up for the following poster

Nectar, humidity, honey bees ( Apis mellifera) and varroa in summer: a theoretical thermofluid analysis of the fate of water vapour from honey ripening and its implications on the control of Varroa destructor - PubMed

Not to pile on or anything but those of us who dig ( I think that is the word you meant to put instead of did) their hives out of the snow know that snow is an excellent insulator. The snow makes a better barrier to cold than a piece of 1/2 in plywood and prevents any high volumes of air coming...

*sigh* I know and I am sure he is not the only one that does this. Hence, lots of dead bee hives last year because the beekeepers relied on a treatment which was working fine, until it didn't.

There was a discussion on another forum, I will have to look it up, that suggested the resistance found in some parts of the US could be time sensitive. In areas where overuse of Apistan lead to resistance and the beekeepers stopped using it for a period of years, some are able to use it again...

Just a quick update for future new beekeeper readers. Veto Pharmacy sent me an email and said that the information on their site is 'general' and not country specific. In Canada/USA the regulation is 8 weeks maximum and leave the strips in for the longest time possible if there is lots of...

Well that clears it up, mdotb, Thanks. Ten weeks would be nice, especially since this warmer fall trend leaves us with a few weeks at the end for the left over varroa to continue to mate. Although we are told that those last few weeks have a decrease in product circulating in the hive and can...

But then if you go on it from England does it give the 70 day requirement in the directions?

Well, JamezF that is interesting, I have the brochure downloaded from their site and it does state 56 days max. So I went to their site because 70 days would be better for me. Here is the result. Most asked questions concerning Apivar - Veto Pharma Blog I use Apivar in the fall. Can I keep...

Randy Oliver in scientific beekeeping has a study on this, check it out. But I also believe he does not advocate for this method now. I tried it once a few years ago but it needed to be done every day or so for a week for best results. The mites don't get killed they just drop therefor a...

The brochure states the Apivar strips must be removed after 56 days, and in a minimum of 42 days. I reposition the strips after about 20 days especially if the bees have moved away from it, or most of the brood on the frame has hatched and it has been backfilled. We are also starting to see...

The thing I have found with feeding sugar, or fondant for that matter, early, is that if we got a cold snap that lasted the little buggers settled up on the sugar and would not move back down. This did not happen to all my hives but one just seemed to be content to hang out in the warm humid top...

I should have put a smile emoji after, indicating sarcasm. I am sorry that you had this type of hive to handle, aggressive bees are not easy to deal with.

I would have offered to return the original hives, pick up only.

Placed another baggie of sugar syrup on top of the frames. The bees are slowing down in their consumption which tells me I am close to the end of feeding. I am keeping an eye on the weather though, last fall was abnormally warm, +20C in the middle of Oct. and +9C at the end. This wreaks havoc...

Yup a **** up of a combine. put the newspaper on, the box on top, found the queen in the hive I am moving and put her in a clip to dispatch or put into a small nuc incase things went sideways. I hadn't decided yet. Popped all the frames into the upper box with angry bees everywhere, their hive...

I got interested in bees because a swarm would move into an unheated outbuilding on and off for 15 years. I would just note their presence in passing to my chicken house then one year I thought I could put them in a hive. It was Oct. and I was advised to leave them be. Knowing nothing about...