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So long hive beetles!!!!!

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This is how I get rid of SHB's (This is a fake video just for fun made with an iPhone app called Action Movie. Enjoy!)
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That's hilarious! Funniest thing I've seen in quit some time!:lpf::applause::lpf:
What percentage of winter losses do you usually experience?
Don
LOL. I didn't actually shoot a rocket at my hives. The video was made with an iPhone app called Action Movie. I'd never hurt my bees. Although it would be fun to shoot a rocket! ;)
LOL. I didn't actually shoot a rocket at my hives. The video was made with an iPhone app called Action Movie. I'd never hurt my bees. Although it would be fun to shoot a rocket! ;)
:lpf:

I knew someone was going to think it was real....... Come on over a couple states, we love to shoot rockets for fun......;). Just not at beehives....:no:......G
:lpf:
Come on over a couple states, we love to shoot rockets for fun......;). Just not at beehives....:no:......G
Seriously? Can civilians get those things? What do you shoot at? Old cars or something?
I stuck a clean oil tray (no oil in it yet) into the Freeman beetle trap on one of my hives last night, and opened the top and gave it a dose of powdered sugar with an adapted rose duster I've been tinkering with.

This morning I found about 8 varroa mites and one larvum (need to look it up but possibly SHB), in the trap and unable to escape. At least 4 of the mites and the larvum were still alive.

Adding veggie oil solved that problem. Not so spectacularly as the rocket, but the bees are better off.

Now, which should I order, thymol or formic acid? Not happy at all with that drop rate. I see no signs the hive is slimed and have rarely seen live adult beetles in the hive, just dead ones in the trap.
:lpf:
Just looked up SHB larvae, and what I saw was just some squirmy intruder. But I drowned it in oil anyway, and it felt GOOD.
haha hate those boogers
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