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After 24 hrs with medicated strips in all my hives I checked the bottom boards again. In the Meliferra hive there were plenty of both Varroa and Tropilealaps mites crawling around. Quite...

Thought I had already posed this... But can't see it now. Sorry if it shows up twice.
I just checked my Cerana hive (quite new, but looking healthy). After a long search of the bottom board, I...

I live in Papua New Guinea, and I keep 4 hives of Mellifera bees . The Asian Cerana bees live wild around here, and are all over the place. Mostly I just spend a lot of time digging them out of my...

Well, just checked my hives after a week, and found one completely dead, and one on the brink. Two healthy ones are the ones that re-queened a couple months ago. Sad day. I treated the remaining 4...

My friends tell me "I used to have a hive that I had to do absolutely nothing with until Christmas, when I'd get about 5 gallons of honey per year. Then all the hives started dyeing out, and we...

I figured that the Cerana were the ones that brought the Tropilealaps to the area. Not that I have any proof of that whatsoever. I just hived my first Cerana last month, so I could go look in that...

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I'll work on making some mesh cages today. I'll check out the bees today, and if they are strong enough, I'll try caging the queens. If they look...

Thanks for everyone for the advice. Beesource is really a great!!! I live in the middle of nowhere, and I can get advice from around the world.

Can anyone describe how to cage a queen? Is it as...

I have 5 colonies in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. I just detected Tropilaelaps mites for the first time, and all my hives are struggling. I’m wondering if the standard chemical treatment for...