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Well requeening does pretty well at keeping African DNA down to a dull roar, but yes we have Small Hive Beetle to go with AHB. It is a challenging place for beekeeping, but aren't they all in...

I'm treating. I see mite drop on the sticky, California queen in 1, mutt in another, 2 nucs with beeweaver queens. I may not treat the nucs, no mites on the sticky, but my big hives are getting oav...

Oh my gosh I've missed this. Thank you GWW

I was in a dearth, but I wasn't taking any chances. EFB started months before I realized it, robbing spread it, I had gone from 6 hives to 2 hives before identifying the problem, and I did...

My state bee inspector confirmed my EFB diagnosis, sent a sample off for testing, yes, it was, told me to requeen, mediicate and all would be well. My local mentor said, harvest the honey, melt the...

I burned my frames as a precaution, melted comb from plasticell (plastic is quite toxic to burn) and gave the wax to someone making furniture polish just to be sure. Sorry for your losses

What I was thinking. Thanks again.

Thank you. I don't have a real high mite count, my last December OAV seemed to do the job nicely. I'm going to pull fall honey on the 13th of October, should I wait on OAV with my regular battery...

All set to treat and they are putting up fall honey, which I am going to steal some of. gotta wait. There is brood in all my hives anyway

Cam,

I've got to treat for mites tomorrow, just wondered what you are using now. I have a couple of options in my garage.

Gypsi

What I did, to be sure my other hives did not rob the infected ones, was harvest all honey for human use only, melt down all wax, scorch all woodware. Terra-pro was easy to get in 2013, and feed...

I haven't got one of these brood factories built yet, but your information on overwintering in nucleus hives has been very valuable to me over the years Michael Palmer!

Great video, I get a couple of yellow jacket calls a year.

I watched your video. It was long. boots you will find some I am sure. That was a really long inspection, bees don't look that hot, they acted like the queen was on frame 3. I use taller hive...

Hal, I wear almost knee high boots with my suit tucked in. For future reference. I can't find my hot queen either, I split her hive 3 ways, the bees say she is in the yellow box so I took all her...

That would make a great video.

that's what I would suggest. Or put the hive with the fewest foragers next to a very busy hive

Put your entrance reducer back on, when there is a dearth of nectar robbing hits high gear. my bees are in sun, all entrances are reduced almost all year here. I do have screened bottom boards so I...

Very informative thread. Guessing Michael is not on Beesource much lately?

Actually I looked inside the extractor and I think the problem is deep honey, going to drain the tank some and try another frame. Had kids here and could do nothing last week

feed, feed and feed unless you have a flow. Still you may have to combine hives going into winter. I live in Texas so that is the best I've got for your climate, hopefully someone else will reply

I'm thinking of just using 2 pound honey jars, they do well with large labels, and everything else glass canning jars with label on lid. Going legal does NOT fit on honey bears

I have 4 ornamental ponds, 3 are quite small, all have a pump and small waterfall of some kind and there are surfaces where bees can light and get water. the trouble with desert, drought and bees is...

I have a spray bottle of dawn and water labeled wasp spray, I don't worry about hunting down every local paper wasp nest, but those too near my door or my hives get a midnight visit and a couple of...

Newspaper combine over a strong hive. I wasted money on perfectly good queens trying to straighten out LW hives, drove a mile and dumped the bees. Repeat again a few days, didn't work.