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Ha, Yes, been their frequently!! they hate em!! Lol you can strim away happily and suddenly your covered in them! i choose really early in the morning, start with the furthest point of the apiary and work backwards making an escape route!!:iagree:

Well i see your point and agree with your sentiment in that respect. I do feel this is a really harsh treatment, when VOA is all i use, and it seems to work really well.

I can't stop quoting His wisdom but it's because it's all wisdom that Mike speaks, like he says, VSH isn't the silver bullet, it's another tool! Just like VOA! Nothing is the cure but we all live in hope! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

80% of mites, not worth bothering with, also its a trickle, Mmmmmm My only worry with these new mixes with added Snake oil and Fairy dust, is that it may lead to the introduction of more regulations to enforce we dont use the pure form of Oxalic acid, wood bleach as we know it here. They do...

I see your argument but i think about it like this. Imagine a hive becomes queen less or goes in to a decline in late autumn(which is very often the case) when bees stop flying and mite transmission between hives slows down or stops due to very few bees flying for months. So imagine that hive...

Yes Mike absolutely Nailed it in his Interview. Whether you treat or not is obviously down to your own personal choice however, If you've never kept bees zero treatment(always previously treated) and subject them to high mite levels its becoming evident that they wont survive well, more like...

Interesting this varroa Control. I was only talking about this today with a fellow beekeeper. I would put money on your mite numbers were low or of an acceptable level earlier in the year but someone nearby had a failing hive (or hives) that have jumped ship and rebolstered your numbers. Do you...

Lol now, aint that the truth!!!:icon_204-2:

Why is it driving you insane?? for the 4 to 5 minutes total for the treatment on each hive, its not bad considering it does a good job. If your only treating 30 colonies consider yourself lucky, i have a lot more than that and agree its slow, but still very effective. I too will be changing this...

You would need to consider a spring extraction anyway if you've got considerable Dandelion flower near you. Its nearly as quick to crystallise as OSR, not far in front of blackthorn!!

It will affect anything like that, but if its just once you wont suddenly a massive problem. next time, for your partitions, just use some styrofoam inserted in to empty frames but paint it with a normal accepted paint for poly nuc. i use smooth masonry paint, bees dont eat or chew it and it...

Don't forget that blackthorn and dandelion can also crystallise just as quick. We're all so quick to blame OSR but it's not all that bad!![emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just keep an eye on it. After 3 weeks it usually starts to turn. You can easily see in the supers going from clear to cloudy. Pull some supers out and look . Also remember these supers have "field heat", or they carry the heat they kept at, so remove and extract them quickly, the same...

You can buy a converter. i bought one years ago for my camping fridge so it could run on its 12 volt plug, from the nearby mains output. what i dont know is, the ampere output on such devices. however they work well if your nearby a 240 output This one , will do up to 120 watt but you would...

What you have to do is be absolutely sure there is no queen present, if there is, its likely she's laying drone, then you have chance of giving this colony a new queen after you have killed the old one. Its likely she will be accepted just fine because the colony had a laying queen that you...

:iagree:if your making regular nucleus colonies your always removing frames and replacing them with new ones. This has all got a bit crazy in my opinion. Why is everyone so hell bent on trashing perfectly good brood, when in reality its totally unnecessary.

I would say work on the usual protocol. It therefore will depend on how long it is before the queen starts laying and then subsequently, when that first brood will be capped over. Certainly before that first brood is capped over but if youve done a shook swarm, i would leave it a few days to...

its interesting, this year we've got more dandelions than I've seen in years, nearly as many as the pic of Pic of Mike's Fields. i will never really experience its flavour as its out the same time as the **** and the blackthorn. I am sure its something to do with sustained cold, we've just had a...

Transfered overwintered nucleus colonies to 2 apiaries. 18 for a new apiary, and 10 to another apiary. More tomorrow morning, finally nice weather, not too hot, just lovely. Very heavy pollen flow in all apiaries. Warm enough tomorrow for nectar too, all good stuff.

Shook Swarming weather!!:icon_204-2: