Dowda method

[Curly green fingers]

Don't know what either of them mean but hey ho .
Thanks for all the posts. Looks like I'm going to be a bit different to the norm.
If there was more people in the world like Randy and Ross it would be a better place.
Cheers mark

 

[Millet]

Forget all that rubbish Mark, vape them late Autumn x 3/4 times 5 days apart and again after Christmas it does not get much easier than that..

 

[Beefriendly]

Forget all that rubbish Mark, vape them late Autumn x 3/4 times 5 days apart and again after Christmas it does not get much easier than that..

Sticking a few strips of apivar in is a bit more easier...... but hurts the wallet if you have multiple hives. Vaping is time (and much less money) well spent until you get the varroa bomb hive.....

 

[Curly green fingers]

Forget all that rubbish Mark, vape them late Autumn x 3/4 times 5 days apart and again after Christmas it does not get much easier than that..

Ive got to look in to vape a bit more Steve, I don't quite feel that's the way for me or trickling for that matter. My association member's trickle in winter and apiguard after extraction. I'm not sure if this is common practice a cross the board.
By the way I did both of the above. So I am doing something I'm not that lazy

 

[Beefriendly]

I don't quite feel that's the way for me or trickling for that matter.

Might I politely suggest it's not really about what you feel like doing. You have livestock, their health is paramount. It's very important that you control varroa with methods that work well.

 

[Millet]

Sticking a few strips of apivar in is a bit more easier...... but hurts the wallet if you have multiple hives. Vaping is time (and much less money) well spent until you get the varroa bomb hive.....

I did try another method before vaping and the amount of dead brood i witnessed was not good even worse if it killed the Queen, since vaping i have not seen any dead brood and noticed no harm to the bees, i did have a varroa problem with one of the hives last year but after six vapes i got on top of it, however only as a very last resort would i try a different method if i had nothing to loose and the varroa where going to wipe the colony out anyway.

 

[Curly green fingers]

Might I politely suggest it's not really about what you feel like doing. You have livestock, their health is paramount. It's very important that you control varroa with methods that work well.

I know about livestock I've been breading sheep cows pigs and chickens for 25 years... I will end ever to look after my bee's to the best of my ability's..

Ops I'll ask that another day... More snow the hives covered in a drift again!

 

[G4WIL]

He also found it had little effect.

and I quote



"The main point to note is that weekly dusting apparently caused a drop in mite levels in colonies rearing brood (but not drones), but did not make mite populations plummet. Since few beekeepers will consistently dust on a weekly basis, I cannot consider sugar dusting by this method to be a robust mite treatment to save a colony when brood is present. Indeed, a trial (currently in press, by permission) by Dr. Amanda Ellis found no effect upon mite levels in Florida test colonies that were dusted every other week with powdered sugar! (She also found that dusting didn’t appear to hurt the colonies)".

Open brood is dehydrated by the powdered sugar ?


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