Varroa Treatment

[moby]

Does anyone know of a treatment for varroa I can safely use that wont affect the honey in the supers during the June gap?

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Is this general good housekeeping or have you a serious problem?

 

[Onge]

Heavy sugar dusting, drone trapping. Anything else and you have to remove supers.

As far as I can remmember.

Here is a good explanation for sugar dusting http://www.countryrubes.com/instructions/usingpowderedsugar.html

Good luck.

 

[oliver90owner]

Good time to be doing A/S's and treating the broodless part.

 

[moby]

Is this general good housekeeping or have you a serious problem?

Just general house keeping at the moment

 

[susbees]

Just general house keeping at the moment

Put a sticky board under for a couple of days...count mites...stick it into the NBU online calculator and report back

 

[enrico]

buy a cheap sugar shaker and use icing sugar. Sprinkle over top and between frames just before you out anything back on top of brood (crown board or supers) Do NOT use any chemicals at this time... Will taint honey
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[Box]

you can use heat as a treatment of the sealed brood
but it recuire the building of a thermo regulated box and acces to 220v
the results is near 100% and survivors are sterile

 

[Arfermo]

Icing sugar is well known as pretty useless waste of time. Wait until late July and then use Apiguard or the latest thymol treatment ApiLifeVar. Then oxalic at Xmas. There is nothing at this time of year that is likely to be successful in treating varroa that will not affect honey. You must have missed oxalic last Xmas?