Iainwilk01
New Bee
Did anyone see Food Unwrapped tonight? They said sprinkling the bees with icing sugar stops the mites from gripping on and fall off the bees. Is this true or a load of BS?
Did anyone see Food Unwrapped tonight? They said sprinkling the bees with icing sugar stops the mites from gripping on and fall off the bees. Is this true or a load of BS?
True.
Varroa is the single cause of thousands of hives dying off, really?
Not exactly sprinkling them with icing sugar, but....you get the idea
http://coloss.org/beebook/II/varroa/3/1/2?searchterm=icing
Thank you for the link B+ ...I had never heard of that method before, much appreciated.
is this one of those programmes where each of the facts are separated by 5 minutes of waffle pointless scene changes and recapping?
I find them absolutely infuriating
Did anyone see Food Unwrapped tonight? They said sprinkling the bees with icing sugar stops the mites from gripping on and fall off the bees. Is this true or a load of BS?
I suppose one of the good things about sprinkling the bees with sugar powder is that no nasty chemicals are introduced into the hive and the bees are not distressed by it.
Does it count as a veterinary medicine as it's being used as a treatment? Is it therefore an unlicensed veterinary medicine?
And if it's 'just sugar' then applying through the season contaminates the honey with sugar - there is no guarantee that the it doesn't.
Wiki then says: An anti-caking agent is generally added during grinding, typically corn starch, or tricalcium phosphate, at 3% to 5% concentration, so you're adding that to your hive along with the icing sugar.
As regards how much I have read about someone using 1lb per hive per visit.
http://www.moraybeedinosaurs.co.uk/V/dusting.pdf
this says 125g per brood box.
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