Karsal
Field Bee
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2013
- Messages
- 545
- Reaction score
- 28
- Location
- Lancashire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3 Pay*es Poly Hives 7 Poly Nucs
Just an update on the results of my oxalic acid sublimation. Yes through inexperience I've lost a colony and hopefully saved two others.
However the one that is thriving has had a bottom sticky board under the OMF while I was away for a fortnight on holiday.
There wasn't one varroa mite on the sticky board at all.
Could this be the result of sublimating Oxalic acid over a 20 day period at 5 day intervals a while ago?
Not sure whether to give them a puff this weekend just to confirm low numbers of varroa or they are still there in the hive and non of the b$ggers have fallen through the mesh.
However the one that is thriving has had a bottom sticky board under the OMF while I was away for a fortnight on holiday.
There wasn't one varroa mite on the sticky board at all.
Could this be the result of sublimating Oxalic acid over a 20 day period at 5 day intervals a while ago?
Not sure whether to give them a puff this weekend just to confirm low numbers of varroa or they are still there in the hive and non of the b$ggers have fallen through the mesh.