Amitraz - test 2weeks after treatment and again at 6
weeks to find more count.
We're going to have more so is the question lower mites and smaller hive effecmore robust with higher count.
Tony doesn't recommend Amstrad so he's now thinking 2-3% more loads may he acceptable. And maybe oxalic 2-3 times a year.
Recreational beekeepers gave the goal of strong healthy hive.
Oxalic is .5 grams per hive, Europe is 2 frames per hive. Vaporizer only kills foretic. With brood on, you need to do it four consecutive weeks. Doesn't seem to slow down laying. Does knock down mites. Option t o use grain alcohol and of alic through bug fogger.
Tony uses strips in late summer, but can be used year around. Leave in 6 weeks max or replace. HMF can be generated, which is toxic to bees.
Oxalic dribble with 3.2 -4% solution no more the 50ml per hive with tubing on end to be more accurate. Good treatment for fall winter, only one time as it effects their exoskeleton. Use mixture that day so doesn't make hmf. Too weak it doesn't work, too strong will burn wings off. Dribble not effective in summer spring because so many mites are in broid cells.
Commercial keepers expect 50% loss. They treat 6x s year so what's the overall effect.
Winter food -- need 25 lbs. Warmer winter needs are higher cuz they flying to look for food.
1% was Tonya level with oxalic
Evaluate queen in fall, August to request in fall. Need lots of bees to split in fall. By 3rd week of January, hive should be booming. In January start with pollen if nothing is around. Count 15 bees/minute bringing in pollen that's good. 72 hours w/o pollen from production shuts down. Tony feeds dry pollen, about .5 cup to see how long they take to eat it. In a communal feeder. Like ulra bee.
Better not to move frames this time of year. Take off top, 6-7 frames of bees, leave them alone.
Don't want to encourage too much brood production before February cold comes. Tony will put 2nd broid box in 3rd week of February and splits March 1st. If weather is cooperating. Just by feel. Then, be sure you control for swarming.
Splits take place in early, first week of March. In late February if really warm winter. By end of March, split only if you've let them have lots of room.
Queen grafting on 15 February.
Raise your own queens in sprung, request with new queen in fall.
Seeing white wax-
To encourage them to store honey not make more bee, balance brood space, and spurring, when they produce white wax, super the box. Bees in bottom box needs room. New super, with no foundation, bees won't go in there. So leave it off and wait till queen moves up, the start drawing out and then put queen below excluded. For honey, on double deep with room and a super produced honey.
Strong hive might make two 5 frame nucs, shake off bees to reduce pop in old hive, out queen in one of the nucs and queen cells in other nuc, and leav e queen cells in original hive. All this in first week if March.
Honey flow in our area.
Ty ty honey in January. but March april may in our area. Chinese tallow is made later.
With soon/new hatched queen, shall take a two week break to get mated but the go into honey oriduction.
Cold weather won't kill the bees, moisture, condensation will. Use shim or popsicle stick year around.
Tonya not a fan if screen bottoms, think about nature setting in the tree.
10lb in 1 cup water, makes hard. Make block, feed, on wax paper. In mold.
Use white sugar not brown sugar.
Florida State beekeepers assoc for link to lab.
Horizontal hives. Not for commercial. Dr. Leo sharaskin . And videos. Low maintenance, go in twice a year.
We're going to have more so is the question lower mites and smaller hive effecmore robust with higher count.
Tony doesn't recommend Amstrad so he's now thinking 2-3% more loads may he acceptable. And maybe oxalic 2-3 times a year.
Recreational beekeepers gave the goal of strong healthy hive.
Oxalic is .5 grams per hive, Europe is 2 frames per hive. Vaporizer only kills foretic. With brood on, you need to do it four consecutive weeks. Doesn't seem to slow down laying. Does knock down mites. Option t o use grain alcohol and of alic through bug fogger.
Tony uses strips in late summer, but can be used year around. Leave in 6 weeks max or replace. HMF can be generated, which is toxic to bees.
Oxalic dribble with 3.2 -4% solution no more the 50ml per hive with tubing on end to be more accurate. Good treatment for fall winter, only one time as it effects their exoskeleton. Use mixture that day so doesn't make hmf. Too weak it doesn't work, too strong will burn wings off. Dribble not effective in summer spring because so many mites are in broid cells.
Commercial keepers expect 50% loss. They treat 6x s year so what's the overall effect.
Winter food -- need 25 lbs. Warmer winter needs are higher cuz they flying to look for food.
1% was Tonya level with oxalic
Evaluate queen in fall, August to request in fall. Need lots of bees to split in fall. By 3rd week of January, hive should be booming. In January start with pollen if nothing is around. Count 15 bees/minute bringing in pollen that's good. 72 hours w/o pollen from production shuts down. Tony feeds dry pollen, about .5 cup to see how long they take to eat it. In a communal feeder. Like ulra bee.
Better not to move frames this time of year. Take off top, 6-7 frames of bees, leave them alone.
Don't want to encourage too much brood production before February cold comes. Tony will put 2nd broid box in 3rd week of February and splits March 1st. If weather is cooperating. Just by feel. Then, be sure you control for swarming.
Splits take place in early, first week of March. In late February if really warm winter. By end of March, split only if you've let them have lots of room.
Queen grafting on 15 February.
Raise your own queens in sprung, request with new queen in fall.
Seeing white wax-
To encourage them to store honey not make more bee, balance brood space, and spurring, when they produce white wax, super the box. Bees in bottom box needs room. New super, with no foundation, bees won't go in there. So leave it off and wait till queen moves up, the start drawing out and then put queen below excluded. For honey, on double deep with room and a super produced honey.
Strong hive might make two 5 frame nucs, shake off bees to reduce pop in old hive, out queen in one of the nucs and queen cells in other nuc, and leav e queen cells in original hive. All this in first week if March.
Honey flow in our area.
Ty ty honey in January. but March april may in our area. Chinese tallow is made later.
With soon/new hatched queen, shall take a two week break to get mated but the go into honey oriduction.
Cold weather won't kill the bees, moisture, condensation will. Use shim or popsicle stick year around.
Tonya not a fan if screen bottoms, think about nature setting in the tree.
10lb in 1 cup water, makes hard. Make block, feed, on wax paper. In mold.
Use white sugar not brown sugar.
Florida State beekeepers assoc for link to lab.
Horizontal hives. Not for commercial. Dr. Leo sharaskin . And videos. Low maintenance, go in twice a year.
