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  1. Diseases and Pests
    I put 3 strips of check mite in 2 brood boxes of 8 frames each. I hung the strips in the corners of boxes to control shb Can I wrap the bees, for winter, while the treatment is in the hive boxes
  2. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I visited my hives for the first time in a while yesterday and the news is not good. Queens have shut down, I saw almost no brood and there were beetles everywhere. Fortunately, nothing was slimed yet. I took off a bunch of boxes and tried to give them as little space as possible. I also put on...
  3. Diseases and Pests
    Hello, Last year I had a tough go. Lost my bees to SHB infestation. I know I pitched a lot of nasty frames and boxes, but out of some of the supers I have left, I cannot truly discern (except for one that has a greasy look to it) which were part of the mayhem. I did bleach the boxes, but I...
  4. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I have an overwintered 8 frame hive (one deep) where the overwintered cluster is really small. Queen is laying, but not many bees and they are only on a few frames. I gave them a frame from another hive of capped brood to boost their numbers. SHB is a problem in this yard and I am worried about...
  5. Diseases and Pests
    Can CheckMite plus kill honeybees? I had a terrible SHB problem. I put a few strips in each of 2 supers, upper and lower, 8 frame deeps. I have noticed a couple dozen dead bees in the front of the hive (on the ramp) a couple of days later. They were all small bees, like nurse bees. It might be...
  6. Diseases and Pests
    I am getting a lot of SHB. I use top entrances and every time I open the plywood cover I see them on the top of the bars and on the bottom of the top cover. Obviously with the top entrances I am using NO inner cover. I have been using the swiffer sheets and that is helping with most hives...
  7. Diseases and Pests
    I have one hive that has some small hive beetles and ants. I keep knocking them off the inner cover and lid, but they keep coming back. I put Tanglefoot down but that didn't make much of a difference. Maybe b/c I am using a pallet and there are too many ways in? Should I move to a top entrance...
  8. Diseases and Pests
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2a29W9Spdg shows the use of diatomaceous earth in an unidentified SHB trap. The author is proud of only paying 60 cents instead of a $1 but fails to identify what he is talking about. This looks like a better alternative than those based on CD-cases. Thanks...
  9. Diseases and Pests
    I have two Langstroth hives in Maryland. I built two quilt boxes to help with humidity this winter, but I was concerned about how to prevent small hive beetles from hiding in the quilt box in the winter (or in the summer, should I use it then, versus a screened inner cover as ventilation). I...
  10. Diseases and Pests
    I'm a new bee keeper with one weak hive that I took over from someone else this summer, and have had some mild but steady hive beetle issues. I can't even really find the beetles themselves within the hive, other than occasionally spotting one, but I do catch larva on my slide out board beneath...
  11. Diseases and Pests
    Checking my bees the other day and I noticed several dead SHBs on the landing board. I had not thought that they survived over winter as adults. I assumed that the larvae lived in the ground and each year a new crop appeared, but seeing these makes me wonder if adults pass the winter in the...
  12. Diseases and Pests
    I have been watching the SHBs in my hives. My bees are very aggressive against them, chasing, biting, and sometimes even flying away with them. The beetles are usually corralled into a corner or hiding between frames. Thinking about their behavior, I figured they will crawl into any small...
  13. New Member Introductions
    Hello from Naperville, IL everyone. Second year beekeeper here. Question on using nemotodes (Hb + Sc + Sf) for treatment of SHB and other beetle grubs. My 4-hive bee yard is in my backyard I don't treat lawn with anything. Nemotodes safe to use around hives? Thx, all
  14. Top Bar & Horizontal Hive Forum
    I am a new beekeeper for approximately 5 weeks, and last evening when the hive was quiet I checked the bottom board of my TBH and found larvae. I have attached video. I inspected the inside a couple of days ago and everything seemed fine. I am not sure if my hive has SHB I plan to inspect the...
  15. Diseases and Pests
    Small hive beetle, or just a small beetle on my hive?
    shb
  16. Diseases and Pests
    I keep my hives in a wooded area that received dappled sunlight. I'm in the Baltimore, MD area and we have had quite a rainy July for the area. I am unable to move my hives to a sunnier area at this time. I had 2 hives - Hive A & Hive B. I had received my nucs in April & both hives struggled...
  17. Diseases and Pests
    I have witnessed in two of my hives a behavior I have never seen. When opening the hive, as usual, I will see a couple of SHB scrambling for cover. Typically, I squash them as I carry out my inspection. But in these two hives I have witnessed bees attacking individual SHB (It looks like they...
    shb
  18. Beekeeping 101
    This needs to be clarified before too many people lose there bees. I have noticed that too many people confuse Beetle Blaster (oil filled) with Beetle Baffles (slippery strips of metal). Beetle Blasters are filled with oil and placed between frames, usually in the top of the hive. Beetle Baffles...
  19. Diseases and Pests
    I can't help but think that the process of making packages from colonies down south will result in the inadvertent transfer of SHB with the package. Has anyone experienced this? Would it make sense to have some mesh large enough on one side of the package that the SHB will fall through and be...
  20. Diseases and Pests
    Hello, Does anyone know how wax moth can be removed from hive this time of the year? The days are not warm, so I don't want to do inspection, but sticky board is suggesting that there can be a wax moth in the hive. I had a SHB trap in my hives that I removed about 1-1.5 moths ago - they had...
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