Hello, I could not find another video about what your final thoughts were about these boards. Do you use them still? Do you think they are worth it for the small beekeeper? Last question, is if you do use these, do you need all the other items inside the hive to trap beetles or is this bottom board good enough and you don't need anything else? Thanks in advance.
Wonderful video, Kamon! Thanks for posting/sharing. I really appreciate our Beetle Busters and they've proven to be worth while investments for our colonies.
Plz consider taking it to the next level. To prevent the beetle pupae from surviving you can simply dump a gallon of permethrin (diluted of course) from a farm store around each colony. Soak the ground. Works for me. Someone might say to use nematodes. We tried but there are three types of nematodes and I think we randomly got sent the wrong type. We got sent Sf type. Wiped out the flies but no luck on SHB so we used permethrin.
They look like they're a great design at cutting down SHB population. I think maybe if they sold them in kit form broken down it would be a little more affordable and cut down the shipping costs. Most all the posts you see on the internet are about expensive shipping even out of Texas.
Was wondering if you've had experience with clearing the holes in the baseboard through the winter? If you can't open the hive, or atleast shouldn't, how do you clear the holes if the bees closed them?
It does kill beetles but for the price it just hurts my wallet too much! You would have to be very careful and possibly have to make a jig to use a wand! Thanks for watching!
I have a Hiverly Base for ours. Also Australian made. I haven’t installed it yet, because, I stained it, and don’t want to put a painted box on top. Stain is expensive here!! Lol
Hi Kamon. Newbie keeper question - Will changing a white bottom board to dark stained wood confuse the bees? Is swapping out wood ware with different colors even an issue?
Hi Dave, it really isn't bees will fly to the same area, smell the hive and go in. It my give them a moment of hesitation. When you change the location of the entrance or move the hive that will confuse them.
She must be newly mated and not drawing much attention yet so I was going to keep the corks in until I see the bees are interested. Also added capped brood and nurse bees so there are younger bees as well. Thank you for teaching this.
@@kamonreynolds exactly! I’m just a backyard guy and I’m not equipping them although I just bought 1 to try it and possibly reverse engineer it haha…. Cheers brotha!!
@@kamonreynoldsI mean, if you can’t have $67,500 worth of boards for your bees, are you even a TRUE beekeeper? I have 2. I’m just a $300 beekeeper. Lol
I agree! I use polystyrene hives with a cafeteria tray layered with DE that rest on the frame of the stand it does wonders. But does this design prevents them in the hive we will see with Kamons videos.
@@SuperBuickregal If you have upper entrances the SHB will take advantage of them. I don't have SHB problems I use a three tier approach screened bottom boards with the DE tray, Beetle blasters with DE on the brood frames and unscented swiffer sheets on the honey supers. The DE takes care or the majority of beetles.
