Bee SAFE Hive Beetle Poison! Exciting Innovation! 

Shbtrap.com - The current Bye Bye Beetle Bait is not what University of GA is working on. BELOW is a statement from UGA. The UGA Bee Lab and the beekeeping product company PowerB2B are partnering to test a bee-safe ‘attract and kill bait’ to be used in small hive beetle traps. In 2024 we have partnered to run a study comparing different insecticides put in as baits inside SHB traps. We hope that chlorantraniliprole, a new pesticide which the UGA Bee Lab has been working with, will be approved for use by EPA. This insecticide is a bee safe alternative to neonicotinoids in turf lawn management and is used as a honeybee safe insecticide during the almond bloom. The research is being led by Bee Lab Professor Dr. Lewis Bartlett and graduate student Ian Collins. Ian graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the UGA Department of Entomology in 2021 and then went on to work as a research technician at the UGA Bee Lab. In 2023 Ian became a PhD student at the bee lab, funded by Project Apis m. and the National Honey Board, and has been working on the use of chlorantraniliprole to control small hive beetles in supplemental pollen feeding as the focus of his research.

Thanks for the video Kamon! We appreciate the recognition and are confident that our traps and bait will control the SHBs, allowing bee hives to thrive!

I'm glad the beetles are being addressed more proactively. I'm looking forward to trying this.

Way to go Dr Bartlett and team!

Been baiting SHB for years. Equal parts of honey, pollen powder and DE into a beetle barn or beetle blaster. Also in middle Tennessee.

Great to see a new product that works

Thank you for information, great news

Finally having a commercial product to control beetles is great! But Hive Beetle Murder Sauce is incredibly effective and the bees won't touch it or be harmed by it. I'm in a hot part of VA where hive beetles run rampant, and it's been a 100% success. Murder sauce is shortening with some DE and a few drops of Eucalyptus oil mixed in. Looks just like your stuff there, but it's super cheap to make. You put little smears in the corners where the bees tend to herd the beetles. Bees won't touch it, and you will have ZERO, and I mean ZERO beetles in all of your hives after a little while. Putting them into those little covers you show isn't a bad idea either, but I never have with zero negative effects. Good to see you again, Kamon!

Evil chuckle!! 🤣🤣👍 love it!!

You are the man thank you

These traps are great. I'm using them under the inner cover and in the trays under my Apimaye bottom boards designed for wooden boxes. Traps are easy to open and refill with bait, and they are virtually indestructable. I believe the bait currently used is boric acid mixed with pollen patty, but I'm not sure.

I have made mine for years and it works great

I just ordered some - thanks for the suggestion.

Got mine ordered! I've never really had an SHB problem until this year. We've had excessive amounts of rain. Even my strong hives are seeing more Hive beetles than normal. This video was very timely.

Just ordered some to try out Kamon. TY!

I order it. Thank you I just started getting hive Beatles uggg. 😊

I got mine yesterday and started putting them in my hives today. Hope it works i got over $200 worth. Thanks for sharing this on your live chat. Have a great day

Great info about the Beatles. I hope I get to try this out because they are bad where I live.

This is great news. I found lots of beetles trapped on my swiffer sheets yesterday and wished there was more I could do. The Oil traps had a few, but the Swiffer sheets caught a lot of them.

Extra points for the under pottle zap. 😂

I received my shipment today. I've had a real struggle this year with beetles and I'm hoping this a real alternative to the swiffer sheets, especially after learning from Fred Dunn how the bees actually ingest some of the fibers. Thank you UGA and Kamon!

Hi Kamon, it seems like we’ve all tried different methods to relieve the stress from SHB without much success. I am here in New York and have to deal with it all the time. Grub X swiffer sheets, beetle blasters, DE you name it and I’ve tried it. The large colonies can tolerate them much better, but I have had slime outs. I really hope that there is a better solution and I’m looking forward to trying this.!

First!! Hey kamon, I will definitely look into that Beetle Poison. I have used beetle barns before, and have some I believe. but don’t have any Bait for it. Thanks for making this video Kamon!! Hope you are having a good 4th of July weekend!! Have a great day 😁👍😎🤙

Ordered was wondering when he was going to get on the market. Now to give it a go.

Reminds me of the CD case traps that I started out using but a much better size. I am sure the bait is better than the old lard and boric acid mixture too. I have Beetle Blaster Baseboards that I cycle around through troubled hives, they are excellent but not cheap. I also love the Guardian excluders.

Among, thanks for great information. I assume you will keep us informed about the progress and when it will be available to us beekeepers.

This will work for most hives but I have one that attracts beetles in plague numbers. I use a small cordless vacuum on my worst hive and have been catching over 100+ beetles per DAY in that one hive for the last month. I caught 624 beetles in this hive 4 days ago, and the numbers have been cut in half each day since. I tried Beetle Barns with a mixture of Crisco and Boric Acid but didn’t see any dead beetles using those.

My old apiary was in the shade most of day, but I still didn't have much of a problem with SHB's, I suppose I was lucky. In my current apiary the hives are out in the open under full sun all day, and I haven't seen a single beetle, (Knock on wood) but this does look like a promising solution. Thanks for the video, Kamon!

Thanks for the info! Looks real promising and I do hope it works. Don't know if I'd use the hive tool to get the poison though.

Thanks for sharing. I'm doing this exact thing with china made traps that look identical to that one and I used a DIY "murder sauce" that I saw on youtube. Thanks Kamon! Definitely going to look for these in the future. Better to be made in the USA for sure

I’m glade you found some things to fight them I’m glade they have not made It to Nova Scotia yet

Nice product. I use Scott's Grub Ex and sprinkle it liberally around my hives a few times a season. It seems to cut the small beetle life cycle to only one cycle as the larvae go down in the dirt and die off before becoming adults.

I am familiar with Dr. Bartlett's research into the chlorantraniliprole (it can still be purchased as a termite control to use as a drench). However, the website given doesn't mention that in their SHBtrap product. They only list boric acid. So does this product contain the chlorantraniliprole?

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Where are the links?????

Should we wash our hive tool after using it for this substance or would in not harm them if it transfers to places outside that trap?

i ordered some but there are no instructions for storage. Do i keep it in the cabinet, refrigerator or freezer? . Edit. i called the number on the website and had to leave a message. i received a call back and was told to store it at or below 75F. i was told that it can be refrigerated or frozen.

I use seven dust around my hives here in Florida, little to no beetles

Where is the web site? Thanks

Now to combat wax moths

So help me out here we use the Beatle barns and use combat gel bait for roaches. The bees never touch it and the Beatles never leave as there dying so what’s the difference?

Am I wrong, or does the bait they’re selling contain boric acid? That’s what the site said. I was expecting chlorantraniliprole, as that’s what Dr. Bartlett is working on. If this is boric acid, I doubt it’s labeled for use in beehives??

Does it has to be placed within hives

I see no link to the current product

Give us an update on the traps. I bought 20 but after a week I don’t see any Beatles in the traps?

Kamon, Dick and I have been buying these traps by the case of 1,000 from the people who import them for over 10 years. It's been awhile since I have purchased them but the last order was about 35 cents a piece. They DO work..........however. The problem with them is that the bees chase the SHB's into the traps and keep them there & in short order propolize all of the entrances to the traps shut. Once this happens, the traps are useless until you remove the traps, empty them out and clean all of the propolis off of the trap. For a small number of hives this is reasonable but for large numbers a horribly laborious task. In Apimaye hives, the bees chase the SHB's down into the bottom drawer in very large numbers but the bees rarely if ever go down into the lower drawer. I have found that cheap non-chlorinated brake cleaner spray works great. Pull the lower drawer open and spray down the SHB's with the brake cleaner. It kills the SHB's and evaporates quickly, leaving no residue chemical or otherwise. Just don't get on or anywhere around where the bees frequent.

A question you may want to ask the developers: If the beetles come in contact with the poison but don't die inside the trap, are the bees coming in contact with the poison when they push the dead beetles outside?

Have u ever tried Peppermint oil????? Just curious if it's worth my time??

TBH, it's not the best marketing move to call this poison.

The bees will glue the those small slots shut in no time like the other similar trap making it ineffective. The university is not working on this trap. Itvis workin on a incrediens that is in Grub X that does not kill the bees but will kill hive beetles. They figured out that ub to specific percentage of using that ingrident that only a couple of bees died but a massive amount of hive beetles died when it was mixed in pollen patties.

Sorry to tell you this but I have been using the plastic traps and this type of bait for years, nothing new here😂

You need to shave soon bro 😅

You should grow a beard

Too much money Bro for that product! Holy crap Bat Man & Robin! That company must think we BK have stolen money like Joe & Hunter! Amazon has cheap Beetle Barns and i am sure we can make a bait with ultra bee pollen sub -DE powder -& a bit of raw honey. Kamon we poor BK have got to start thinking outside of the bee box! 😁