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1st year with my bees. The likely most important thing I've learned is I probably worry too much about them. The 2nd most important thing is treat for mites. And don't overfeed, I wanted to make...

Thanks, I plan to treat through Dec. 1, that’ll cover just over 21 days which should be a full cycle. Bear in mind this is my 1st winter with my bees so I’m not really sure what to expect but it’s...

I just did my 2nd oav treatment the other day, another one due tomorrow. I may even do an inspection if the rain lets up as it’s still around 12C here in the daytime. My mite drop yesterday was...

This is what I suspect, too. The Formic pro treatment got the drop down to a few a day, if any, I was a bit surprised to see so many after 3 weeks away. I figured they’d be good after that. Formic...

Ya it was over 3 weeks, but I’ll treat with oav anyways, I started this morning so I’ll check the drop tomorrow. I fed another gallon today, I’m not seeing robbing and the entrance is reduced so it...

Looks like a honey bee.

I treated with Formic pro in September and the mite count dropped sharply after to almost nil, but still the odd one or two every few days. I just got back from being away for work for 3 weeks and...

Proprietary ingredients=cocaine

Yes, bees don't care, though where it was salvaged from and what other materials/chemicals it could have contacted would make me leery of using it.

The 13 day interval seems a little long, according to the instructions. I don't think the split treatment should have such a large gap. I'm doing the same treatment for my hive right now, just...

Well Monday was day 10 so I did a good inspection and turns out there's still a full hive of bees, thankfully :) Most of the drones are gone and only a bit of brood capped in the upper medium brood...

Yeah thanks, I did read this and followed the instructions before treating. I fully inspected then treated 3 days after to make sure they would not be disturbed that much. It's gone fairly well I...

Only if the temperatures are too warm when you apply. Definitely not a concern for me here now.

I’m currently treating with Formic Pro. Tomorrow will be the 10 day split where I’m supposed to put on the 2nd strip. 1st treatment really seemed to affect the bees but it did kill a ton of mites...

$7.50/hive is pretty cheap compared to the cost of a dead hive.

Good to know, it sure seems extreme when I’m only used to seeing a few or none. They seem to be recovering a bit from the initial shock and bearding a bit and flying more now. Since I treated I...

Possibly, was shocked at the amount.

I’ve got them here, I’ll review, thanks for the heads up.
Edit: instructions say not to feed internally or with top feeder but barrel feeding is acceptable.

To carry on from previous thread but with a different angle now, I verified my hive appeared strong last night. Half full honey super, good brood in both boxes and queen active. My mite count has...

Well good news, the bottom box is again full of brood. Queen is obviously doing well. I treated with a single Formic pro pad, will treat again in 10 days. A bit more capped honey up top but still...

So I've made it this far, my hive is doing good with one deep/one medium brood box and a deep honey super, 8 frame hive. They're now starting to kick out the drones and the yellow jackets are...

If you have an empty super, I would put it on to keep them busy. If you have a large hive with a full brood chamber and nowhere to store forage they’ll backfill the nest and you risk a late season...

Feed them the sugar supers.

Hey DH20, welcome. I’m in the same boat pretty much as you but here’s what I’ve learned. Try to stay on top of it. Weekly inspections to start to get familiar with the bees and how they’re doing. ...