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If they are Drones they will still be in your hive and you will see them coming and going in the warmer parts of the day.

Sometimes they come out on mass sometimes in ones or twos. they make a...

I'm with JRG13 drones will often come out to play in large numbers especially between 10am and 2.pm :)

As others have mentioned you can release your queen immediately on installing the package as the bees have been with her long enough for her to be accepted as their queen.

She will have no...

I thought this was a thread to ask about treatment free beekeeping not general beekeeping?

By asking your general questions here you will not get an overview of what other beekeepers are doing.
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I wonder about the origin of the UK honey as well irwin :scratch:

I realise that Mgolden thats why I mentioned that the mite dies from starvation due to paralysis rather than being killed on the bee and falling off as was alluded too in one of the posts

Just to add that a comment was made that Apivar kills the mite directly when from what I've read Amitraz causes paralysis in the mite, it falls off the bee and starves to death.

Here's another...

Apivar is used widely in New Zealand.

Treatment period of 10 to 12 weeks, works very well with no problems so far.

Apivar comes in strip form and is applied 2 strips per brood box

Whitetail how many hives so you have and how long have they been without treatment?
Do you split heavily during the season or leave as is?

If someone is claiming that you can have a colony headed by an open mated VSH queen and not have to chemically control varroa then I would have thought it would now be easy for beekeepers to purchase...

If colonys headed by VSH queens that are open mated produce bees that require no chemical control for varroa then wouldn't all beekeepers in America have these queens heading their colonies?

Really? it's that simple ? and no treatments needed ever?

I always have open brood either side of the cells because it's the young nurse bees that feed the queen lavae and the worker brood rather than the older foragers that you will find in your honey box....

from what I understand you can graft 100 lavae from a High VSH queen open mate and end up with 10 queens having 80% rate of VSH 30 queens with 50% 40 with 30% and 20 with negligible VSH traits, or...

I carry the smoker by hand I usually dont need anything else when working a yard so wouldn't bother with carrying around a bucket or anything else.
If it's the bee season the smoker either sita on...

smoker goes in an empty bee box on the back of the truck grass stuffed in the spout when travelling between sites hive tool goes in the side of the smoker between the body and the grill. We use the...

To frazzledfozzle ... I never said how many hives his dad had.... so how would someone in New Zealand know this??? .

OK I got the number of hives wrong because I couldn't be bothered to go back to...

Well Sippy it's a good job you know all about the family and can tell everyone why they aren't getting their queens.... Why is that again?

And yes it's a terrible shame you haven't been on...

We use it in New Zealand it's been fantastic with no problems at all.

Treatment is easy, it's in strip form, the same as Apistan or Bayvarol so very easy to use and very effective

Can you highlight what part of this report concerns you?

I dont see where the problem is ?

BEES4U

Nope that data dosn't make me nervous at all :)

BEES4U most of the above quoted article has nothing to do with Apivar it's all about Apistan and Coumaphos I dont see the relavance?

Apivar has been used in beehives in some countries of Europe...

well since you bumped it ... It's not 3 years yet but we have Apivar in our hives and the bees are fit and healthy with hardly a varroa mite in sight :)

I love my Apivar :)

why was my post deleted as being off topic?

Whats off topic about noting that months have gone past since the original thread was started and everyone is still blathering on and on ?

Is it...

might be a wool carder bee?

http://bugguide.net/node/view/64330