Your streamlining tips?

[Jimmy]

Mostly sound practices, but dear me, open feed holes and plenty of ventilation showed he hasn't moved with the times.

I think it was a talk in ~2008.
The general ethos of his approach rather than the specifics are what to me is the take home message.

 

[JamezF]

Cost-benefit analysis probably makes conventional swarm management impractical. David did use bait hives: YT comments state there is a lot of swarming and lots of empty hives getting occupied each year. Didn't mention clipping of queens.

Ah, I rarely read YT comments because they're so often full of utter drivel. Perhaps I should go back and do so in this case.

James

 

[Moobee]

I have a gasvap and have drilled holes in the back of the floors, with a wooden dowel in each to plug them.
Only issue is the gasvap itself. It's just not quite reliable enough for me. It misfires, or I'm just not confident it's actually worked properly, so I end up doing it again, only not to be sure again.

InstaVap seems to be the business. Only issue is the price tag £375.00 + battery (£50).

Next year, I'll have close to 20 colonies. 1 x 10 pack of apivar = £30 x 4 = £120.

But, this year, atleast one of my colonies on apivar is still dropping a small amount of mites.

I need to be ready to make the financial jump. Perhaps next year.

InstaVap Light is £199 and you can use PayPal in 3 installments….

 

[Erichalfbee]

InstaVap Light is £199 and you can use PayPal in 3 installments….

Only till end of the year then it goes up in price.

 

[Wilco]

Only till end of the year then it goes up in price.

Does anyone know if it can be used with larger capacity batteries?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Does anyone know if it can be used with larger capacity batteries?

No sorry. Ask on the InstantVap page?
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