Finman
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- Hive Type
- Langstroth
Get a digital kitchen scale and measure
warm water 100 g
sugar ........100 g
oxalic acid.....7,5 g
That dose is for 3 douple brood hive or for 5 one box hive.
Get a syringe for 100 ml or 50 ml
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When the hive is broodless, and out temp is 0C- +5C,
dribble to the hive into the frames gaps
- 3 ml to a small winter cluster per seam
- one box is full of bees, trickle 4 ml per seam
- to douple brood hive give 5 ml/seam. Even if you do not see the bees properly, they are there.
- Do not separate the boxes. Give the stuff into seams from upper box
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It takes couple of days when mites start to drop from bees. They will drop during next month.
Part of mites drop into empty cells and when you handle frames in spring, you may get tens of dead mites from combs. That is why mite count in spring does not tell about mite load.
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The gap in brooding is so narrow in Britain that needless to think that you do 2 trickling. But don't do it inside month because it does not help.
If you have brood during winter, it is really possible to take brood frames off and then trickle.
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Trickling the swarm is a good idea. It polish the bees.
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You may trickle hives even if they are not in cluster. Cold trickling day is good because bees not not jump on you, as they use to do in warm weather over +5C. You are hurry to put on the cover because cluster will expand in a minute and bees start to defend themselves.
After trickling colony use to expand and fill the wintering box. They spread this way the stuff and they will calm down in couple of days.
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Trickling is about 10 years old method and verified countless times.
It does not make real harm to bees. If you do not like it, don't do it. But let others do it and do not provocate the issue.
Oxalic acid trickling is the best varroa killing method ever found: it is easy, effective and cheap, and no harmfull residues to honey or to wax.
Carrot has 100 times more oxalic acid than oxalic acid in the hoiney of hive.
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warm water 100 g
sugar ........100 g
oxalic acid.....7,5 g
That dose is for 3 douple brood hive or for 5 one box hive.
Get a syringe for 100 ml or 50 ml
****************
When the hive is broodless, and out temp is 0C- +5C,
dribble to the hive into the frames gaps
- 3 ml to a small winter cluster per seam
- one box is full of bees, trickle 4 ml per seam
- to douple brood hive give 5 ml/seam. Even if you do not see the bees properly, they are there.
- Do not separate the boxes. Give the stuff into seams from upper box
******
It takes couple of days when mites start to drop from bees. They will drop during next month.
Part of mites drop into empty cells and when you handle frames in spring, you may get tens of dead mites from combs. That is why mite count in spring does not tell about mite load.
****************
The gap in brooding is so narrow in Britain that needless to think that you do 2 trickling. But don't do it inside month because it does not help.
If you have brood during winter, it is really possible to take brood frames off and then trickle.
***********
Trickling the swarm is a good idea. It polish the bees.
***********
You may trickle hives even if they are not in cluster. Cold trickling day is good because bees not not jump on you, as they use to do in warm weather over +5C. You are hurry to put on the cover because cluster will expand in a minute and bees start to defend themselves.
After trickling colony use to expand and fill the wintering box. They spread this way the stuff and they will calm down in couple of days.
*************
Trickling is about 10 years old method and verified countless times.
It does not make real harm to bees. If you do not like it, don't do it. But let others do it and do not provocate the issue.
Oxalic acid trickling is the best varroa killing method ever found: it is easy, effective and cheap, and no harmfull residues to honey or to wax.
Carrot has 100 times more oxalic acid than oxalic acid in the hoiney of hive.
.
.