Varroa Control

[Erichalfbee]

With broad do people vape three times five days apart?

Yes
Three or four times

 

[user 18806]

Thanks maz0 for link.
So mid August is when to start Apiguard treatment.
As it says about tainting the honey, assume that means take the supers off. Do you feed them at the same time, or will there be enough food for them in the brood box?
Once treatment finished, do the supers go back on to give them food through the winter?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Thanks maz0 for link.
So mid August is when to start Apiguard treatment.
As it says about tainting the honey, assume that means take the supers off. Do you feed them at the same time, or will there be enough food for them in the brood box?
Once treatment finished, do the supers go back on to give them food through the winter?

Supers off
A rule of thumb is one frame’s worth of stores is enough to see the bees through a week so you look then you can tell if they have enough. The instructions say not to feed as it may stop the bees moving the thymol about and it becomes less efficacious.

 

[Murox]

Leave Apiguard on hive til spring?

This appeared in an email advert from Becky's Beezzzs today.

Did you know you can use ApiGuard as a winter treatment? Simply, apply Apiguard during the final colony visit and leave it there until opening the hive again in spring.​

Anyone have any experience of doing this ? seems rather peculiar to me.

 

[BMH]

This appeared in an email advert from Becky's Beezzzs today.

Did you know you can use ApiGuard as a winter treatment? Simply, apply Apiguard during the final colony visit and leave it there until opening the hive again in spring.​

Anyone have any experience of doing this ? seems rather peculiar to me.

Ha. That's just an autumn treatment that you dont remove until spring.

It will sublimated in a couple of weeks and too cold to use apiguard at this time of year.

probably got some old stock to get rid off


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[Murox]

Ha. That's just an autumn treatment that you dont remove until spring.
It will sublimated in a couple of weeks and too cold to use apiguard at this time of year.
probably got some old stock to get rid off
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Well it is a commercial advert I guess. Thanks for the response though.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

This appeared in an email advert from Becky's Beezzzs today.

Did you know you can use ApiGuard as a winter treatment? Simply, apply Apiguard during the final colony visit and leave it there until opening the hive again in spring.​

Anyone have any experience of doing this ? seems rather peculiar to me.

Seems like awful and bad advice to me, a company that either knows SFA or who put profit before bees

 

[Erichalfbee]

I think advocating leaving any treatment in over winter is a little foolhardy. Having said that both Apilife Var and Apiguard should all be gone from the hives in a matter of weeks so I don’t suppose it matters.
But if they are advocating a winter treatment then that’s just plain mis-selling.
I have heard some beekeepers leave Amitraz in over winter which surely is asking for trouble.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It would also be great fun to see what mess they can make with brace combing the extra space the eke will give them.
One of the essential things with Apiguard is that the outside temperature is sufficient for the bees to be fully active, regardless of what some with scant knowledge bang on about the temperatures inside the hive, if 't's cold outside, the bees will be in some kind of cluster so the Apiguard won't be effective.

 

[mbc]

It would also be great fun to see what mess they can make with brace combing the extra space the eke will give them.
One of the essential things with Apiguard is that the outside temperature is sufficient for the bees to be fully active, regardless of what some with scant knowledge bang on about the temperatures inside the hive, if 't's cold outside, the bees will be in some kind of cluster so the Apiguard won't be effective.

Maybe but the beauty of apiguard is that some of its effectiveness is that it irritates the bees enough for them to gather it up and chuck it out of the hive and supposedly leaves a trail of rhymol as they're tracking it put.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Maybe but the beauty of apiguard is that some of its effectiveness is that it irritates the bees enough for them to gather it up and chuck it out of the hive and supposedly leaves a trail of rhymol as they're tracking it put.

.....thus they need to be active