Sugar dusting with out sbb

[P_KUNEY]

Question will powder sugar dusting work with out sbb. I want to get sbb but local bee supply keeps having eratic hr,s. Keeps closing be for I get off work. Not sure of timeline date I noticed ..:doh: ss cell then about 3 days later what appeard to be a swarm bees 40ft wide 30ft high. I grabed a pan and bucher knife and banged them togather thay landed back on hive. I went and suited up and they were back in hive. So I grabed my nuc found marked Quean and made up nuc. But 29days later dident see eggs or Larva but did se drown cells thought laying worker.Saw drown with mite:eek:.Put in eggs from good hive from package this year also 7 quarts honey so far. But next week Good patern eggs I have a Queen ya.But is 29 days enough time to brake mite cycle. Singal dad paying for day care dont want to pay foe shiping for sbb. Pat 2 Hives 1 nuc.My Brother Has 18 Hives we work them togather.

[P_KUNEY]

So should I sugar dust or am I wasting my time since I dont have sbb. Pat

[RayMarler]

Just my thoughts at the moment...

The mites grab onto the bees with little sticky pads on their feet. Dusting with powder sugar makes it so the mites can't hang on, the dust keeps the pads on their feet from sticking to a bee. So the mites fall off, and thru the SBB and on outside the hive. If you don't have an SBB, then the mite falls off, hits the floor, hitches a ride back up into the hive on the next bee that passes by. So, with no SBB a powder sugar is a waste of time and might even cause more damage than good becuase of all the dust in the hive with not as easy of a way for it to get out without a sbb.

[Birdman]

I think the powder sugar is to make the bees clean house. When they clean the sugar from the hive they remove the mites as well.

[NeilV]

What Ray said.

[P_KUNEY]

Thanks all I think ill order sbbs and go from there.

[dug_6238]

...later what appeard to be a swarm bees 40ft wide 30ft high. I grabed a pan and bucher knife and banged them togather thay landed back on hive...

Just as an FYI...Tanging (banging a wooden spoon on a pan) was discounted in a study a few years back as having no impact on a swarm...sometimes they do end up going back or ending up on an available closeby hive...but I'm sure your neighbors got a kick out of it. :D

I don't know when I last saw a post that included tanging. This was an enjoyable memory...I remember my Dad doing it. :)

[P_KUNEY]

[QUOTE=dug_6238;451813]Just as an FYI...Tanging (banging a wooden spoon on a pan) was discounted in a study a few years back as having no impact on a swarm...sometimes they do end up going back or ending up on an available closeby hive...but I'm sure your neighbors got a kick out of it. :D
Thats the problem with study I said pan and butcher kinfe.not wooden spoon :no: My Dad seemed to have luck doing it 30 yrs ago. Ican rember when eggs were bad for you to.:D

[Robert Brenchley]

Tanging originally related to a medieval law that if you followed a swarm, banging on something, then it remained your property. The law is long defunct, but the myths go on!