Hello,
Please excuse my ignorance as I am new to beekeeping. I have done my first inspection after winter and there is a lot of varroa! I have read somewhere that frames can be frozen to effectively kill the parasite. Then you would uncap the cells and try to "pre-clean" them as much as possible and bees will clean the mess and reuse the frame.
However, all I have seen is exclusively about freezing drone frames. What would happen if I did that to all the frames in the hive? (not at the same time, but in batches of 3 frames) My idea would be to still apply a varroa treatment for varroa on top of adult bees during this time.
But this means that all brood (including workers) would be dead. Would that kill the colony or would the queen lay new eggs in the unthawed frames and new worker bees would be born in time?
Sorry if my question sounds naive. I'm a beginner.
Please excuse my ignorance as I am new to beekeeping. I have done my first inspection after winter and there is a lot of varroa! I have read somewhere that frames can be frozen to effectively kill the parasite. Then you would uncap the cells and try to "pre-clean" them as much as possible and bees will clean the mess and reuse the frame.
However, all I have seen is exclusively about freezing drone frames. What would happen if I did that to all the frames in the hive? (not at the same time, but in batches of 3 frames) My idea would be to still apply a varroa treatment for varroa on top of adult bees during this time.
But this means that all brood (including workers) would be dead. Would that kill the colony or would the queen lay new eggs in the unthawed frames and new worker bees would be born in time?
Sorry if my question sounds naive. I'm a beginner.