6 Hive Pests you need to know about! | Beginner Beekeeper Episode 22

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Lets look at the pests you can find in your beehive! Help your bees stay healthy and stress free!
00:00 Intro
00:33 Ants
01:30 Wax Moth
04:33 Earwigs
07:20 Spiders
07:56 Small Hive Beetles
10:28 Varroa
13:35 Honorable mentions
20:16 Out
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@rogerallen1767 11 месяцев назад

made a big impression you get to the point very quickly i love it

@RascalApiary 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! That is nice to hear.

@tallcedars2310 4 года назад

As a new beekeeper on the 56th latitude in B.C. Canada I found this very informative. We may not have all the pests but you explained a lot that was new to me, even after researching bees for 3 years. So much to know and apply that it boggles my mind. But I look forward to learniing as you work towards your Master Beekeeper degree. All the best.

@RascalApiary 4 года назад

Thanks! We used to live very close to Vancouver before we started beekeeping! We've always been curious what the major differences are. We have such a long dearth compared to you guys but also a longer spring and fall as we rarely get snow here. More like muddy winters.

@AymenDZA Год назад

Funny how context changes your outlook on things, I always admired Dragonflies, mantis, spiders and other insects, but being a beekeeper suddenly they're your mortal enemies lol

@RascalApiary Год назад

So true!

@Merlin.Twiggles Месяц назад

Earwigs TOTALLY eat bee bread, so yes they do, cause damage.

@stufarnham 4 года назад

Research shows that varroa drop to a bottom board does not give an accurate count of mites in the hive. The most accurate measure is an alcohol wash or, if you are skilled at it, a sugar roll. Randy Oliver has a good article on the accuracy of various sampling methods in a recent American Bee Journal. Historically I have used screened bottom boards to provide ventilation (we have very hot summers here). This has been a terrible year for robbing, perhaps because it was a poor year for honey production. Two of our key flows were taken out by bad weather. This has led me to decide to switch to solid bottom boards. You’ll find lots of robbers on a screened bottom, which says to me that the smell of the honey is spread through the screen.

@RascalApiary 4 года назад

That's one of the reasons we had switched to solid bottoms. That hive we kept the screen bottom board purely for comparison. The heat kills the varroa which is a plus but also kills the sperm in the queens spermatheca. That's why you'll see some of our hives in shade and some with no shade. We also want to see which hives do better with brood production vs varroa count. We conduct sugar rolls every other inspection. We'll make a video soon on sugar rolls. I don't do the alcohol wash just because an accurate count is nice but doesn't matter when varroa is a migratory mite. You could have 1% one week and 20% mite count the next.

@dixsigns1717 4 года назад

I so enjoy your videos, I learned a lot today, thank you.

@RascalApiary 4 года назад

Thank you! This means a lot to both of us!

@Bee_Cathy 2 месяца назад

Where do you get the hive stands from. Great video.

@RascalApiary 2 месяца назад

Thank you! We made them.

@elizabethdavidson4188 3 года назад

Earwigs like to eat the bee between the larva and adult stage

@RascalApiary 3 года назад

Interesting. We haven’t had any issues with earwigs getting into the frame areas. We generally find them on the outsides of the boxes or inner cover.

@viscache1 2 года назад

I keep seeing old black wax in some hives. Is this from leaving the same comb in after collecting the honey and darkening over time? Do some beekeepers collect the wax every time or is that something reserved for when it gets too nasty for the bees? Here in the Northwest we hear a lot about veroa mites and small hive beetles but we don’t have much of an insect population in the open fields. The greater pest load occurs in the hives near the trees.

@RascalApiary 2 года назад

Wax starts out transparent. It only starts turning brown and black over the years by the honey being added and whatever the bees are tracking in. We change frames out every 3-5 years so the contamination the bees track in doesn't change the honeys taste and keeps a healthier colony

@buttsbeesllc4063 2 года назад

I have earwigs in hives, no problems and roaches only in low population hives. The black widows or brown widows are the only spiders I worry about. The bees can take take of most of those "pests". DE is not as messy in those traps!

@RascalApiary 2 года назад

Thanks for the info! DE we typically don't use, due to the amount of dust.

@buttsbeesllc4063 2 года назад

@@RascalApiary just wear a mask when filling and it doesn't fly during inspections. :]