malawi2854
House Bee
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2009
- Messages
- 205
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- Location
- Tonbridge, Kent
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 5
Hello all,
I realise I am probably going to be lynched for asking this - but thought I'd give it a go anyway!
Is there any need for me to treat for varroa this year (my first year - with a nuc, started in May), if I don't actually appear to have varroa?
Now, I know you'll all be tutting away, thinking, "well, of course you have varroa, unless you live as a hermit on some distant scottish isle", but I'm afraid that all that I can see suggests I do not have varroa... or at least, not in any detectable quantity!
I have the inspection tray that came with my Beehaus, and I've only cleaned it once this year so far, and can't see a single varroa mite on there at all.
So, any point in treating?
I realise I am probably going to be lynched for asking this - but thought I'd give it a go anyway!
Is there any need for me to treat for varroa this year (my first year - with a nuc, started in May), if I don't actually appear to have varroa?
Now, I know you'll all be tutting away, thinking, "well, of course you have varroa, unless you live as a hermit on some distant scottish isle", but I'm afraid that all that I can see suggests I do not have varroa... or at least, not in any detectable quantity!

I have the inspection tray that came with my Beehaus, and I've only cleaned it once this year so far, and can't see a single varroa mite on there at all.
So, any point in treating?