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So I'm lazy and my planning is poor...

I'm trying to get a few shallows of honey tomorrow and I dont have any real method to separate the frames of honey from the bees besides sweeping one frame...

I'll tell you what I did...

I put a box fan behind me, with my smoker behind that... that way I was breathing fresh air while I applied the strips. The ONLY thing I would do differently is open...

Yeah it has calmed down alot.. for awhile I thought I killed my hive!

I checked on them at night, maybe they were hallucinating or something because they kept dive bombing in the side of the hive...

you posted the wrong link... thats to your personal login or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6pjlAv7K0

Pretty much did this... I dont trust this lady, she creeps me out a bit.

THEYRE STILL DIEING!!!! PANIC!!!!

Ok, so I got my canister of mite away 2 (formic acid stuff) and immidiately treated by placing the one package(two wads of paper) on top of the bottom brood box.... checked on them 15 minutes later...

yup, I definitely had varroa... now I just hope the neighbors bear problem doesnt become my problem with all that powdered sugar.

so this virus spreads amongst the bees? when nurse infected start feeding the larve? or does it have to be transmitted through the mite?

OK so I have a problem with deformed bees being thrown out of the hive, but first lemme lay out some background.

A. this is my first season and I captured a feral swarm and installed them into a...