Best Small Hive Beetle control I have EVER found 

Beer and bees go together really well.

Very informative, thanks. Has prompted me to investigate and research further !

Living in Florida you have provided me with great tips. Catching swarms using a bucket & now beetle control. Thanks

Had a bad year with SHB last year and I was considering this treatment but I was scared it would harm my bees. Excited to see how this works for me. Thanks

I like your approach. I often wondered why combating SHB there wasn’t more focus on treating the soils around the hives. I treated weeds around hives with salt and liquid dawn spray, noticed SHB counts were way down. It occurred to me it may have been the salt around the hives and the SHB were killed or could not pupate. Not scientific but a possibility. Seems like treating soil around hives would be a great solution. Thanks for posting your video.

Thanks for this video. I am certainly going to give this a try.

Love the shirt. I just subscribed and am looking forward to your videos. I'm a big Bob Bonnie fan and must have missed that video. I'll spend time watching that video. Good luck this season. We're still in the cold of winter up here. But hive beetles are an issue in summer.

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your sharing!

Thank You, I just discovered beetles to. On my way to Home Depot.

Great information

Just ran across this Rich. Monday night was at our monthly Jax bees meeting with Jamie Ellis as a speaker and cover the same topic SHB. ands all the other things what causes hive destruction and losses. I'm in Jacksonville.. Verona as always is the main issue but if we can eliminate one pest all the better. UF is the well for information.. and I'm a Seminole appreciate this and will be following Thanks Rich

Thanks for your post. I will incorporate this into my apiary this weekend. New sub!

I've used vinegar, salt and dawn dish soap solution around my hives to kill the weeds around them and it seems to help with SHB also. This seems like a good idea and I may try it this summer, thank you for the tips.

Interesting stuff Rich. New subscriber here. I just found your channel. I need to try this. I hate SHBs.

South Florida small (hobby) farm apiary, agricultural, poultry, cattle info/tips/advice is hard to find. Good to find you.

Hello Rich a second comment I just found your Hurricane hive video an yes these boxes are close to the one I am interested in building. It is made like your hurricane hive but let’s just say the right side of your hurricane box is your brood box then a queen excluder is stood up in the middle an then in the other 8 frame side is your super side . I live in central NC an yes I do stack super. The reason for this stile of setup is so you can on inspections of your brood box you do not have to pull off all those supers to get into your brood box you can just take the lid off over your brood box an do your inspection an never have to do all that lifting of supers but your idea would work great for your setup also . THANKS . I enjoy your videos

I watched the same video and decided to mix Grub X, pollen and a little water and packed into my beetle traps in the hive. Placed an extra trap on the bottom board. Significant reduction in SHB last year. Went ahead and put it on the ground to start this season.

Awesome shirt!

Just tried this today. Hope it works.

Just subscribed. I'm in SW, Florida and new to bee keeping. Any advice for S. Florida is greatly appreciated because most online tips is for Northern areas.

I’ve been spreading diatomaceous earth around the base of my hive stand legs and I put two hive beetle traps with olive oil in them in each box.

Hello Rich I have watched this video of yours before an had to come back an watch it again because I was thinking I saw something behind you that I am very interested in. The hives you were working around. Are those hives a double wide hive with the brood box beside the super . I saw another bee keeper that was doing this an it really caught my attention. ???. Thanks

Just lost two hives today from shb ill be trying this as well cheers

Had a single hive for over a year. The colony wasn’t ever what I considered strong. Had SHB pretty much since they came from the package. Tried beetle blaster, hive beetle murder sauce, fiber cloths, peppermint, and grub-ex. just checked into a slime-out yesterday. Pretty sad.

I'm with you. I used bifenthrin granules for sod worms and though it under my hives right before a rain.. I've scene that active ingredient that you showed, c_____, but have only used the bifenthrin. Going to try the grubX now as well. Bifenthrin will harm bees, but i was relying on the granules being sown in the grass and rained in. Yep, and reason I started with the granules was due to having an effective way to get under hives with the screened bottoms. Never showed it on any of my videos because same reason as you stated at the beginning...

I’ve wanted to try beneficial nematodes for breaking SHB lifecycle. Haven’t tried or researched it yet but seems like it should

Weary interesting

I’d like to see your application of it

I saw the Video you are referring to. I wondered if I could do this but feared it could be harmful. I’m glad you posted this. Did you also see the study out of GA that hasn’t been published yet? It was in regards to using hydrogen peroxide? I found that to be exceedingly interesting as well. I think there will be future control methods that will include hydrogen peroxide: Again I won’t be experimenting with it until somebody else does.

I just listened to Dr. Bartlett's talk and he specifically used chlorantraniliprole (an anthranilic diamide). The formula you mention is chlothinadin, which is a neonicotinide, and thus toxic to bees. These are two different chemicals with very different mechanisms of action. Can you clarify what you are using?

Maybe I just got lucky, but I haven't yet needed any SHB control yet. I put my apiary on the edge of a pine forest here in coastal NC, so there is tons of sandy soil with pine needles all around the base of my hives. The beeks around me said last year was the worst year they had ever had with the beetles. I saw a few here and there, but nothing I ever had to mitigate.

How has this been working out for you? I saw your video on tanglefoot around the metal support beams, does tanglefoot trap the smallhive beetles, or just ants? Thank you very much Rich and filmer/editor.

Did you ever make a video on the hive beetle traps you mentioned in this video

The instructions on the bag says to wet it down after you apply.

I believe i heard you say it can be added to pollen patties…Are you able to explain ratios of GrubEX to pollen..etc, etc,…? Thank you

Interesting, I'll have to look at Bob's video. A little confused, cloanthadin (probably spelled it wrong) is a neonic used as a corn seed treatment i believe. Isn't that supposed to be deadly to bees.

You said that you change active ingredients so that the SHB do not develop resistance to the pesticide. Generally, that is a good approach but my concern is, are the bees equally tolerant of all of the different active ingredients you use. Unless and until they are all tested on bees, I would be cautious.

I’m in Sarasota…… I had a hive I was battling with stupid carpenter ants (big ones)…. Maybe bull ants? Any remedies?

I stopped using the Scotts Grub EX 3 yrs ago because I started bees. Now I wish I hadn't. Two 25 yr old Rose Bushes and a Rose of Sharon Bush was killed this year from Japanese Beetles Grubs. I am going to make some pollen patties and put Grub EX in it and put it in reusable beetle traps in my colonies.

What are those numbers on your boxes?

What if you soak in water and just put it around your hives

I'll try this but I put a pan under the entrance and it fills with larva

Why not an IG regulator for hive beetles? Not saying dont do what you're saying, but couldn't you also treat the area with IGR to prevent the grubs from maturing?

Top stuff here in AUSTRALIA FEW MATES USE BUNDY SAND AND TOP SHELF TEE TREE MULCH MIX 4 INS THICK BED THEY HATE THE STUFF WITH THAT MIXED IN WOULD BE THE DUCKS NUTS CHEERS AND THANKS FOR INFORMING .

Just found your channel and heard about GrubX elsewhere. Think I might try this. I placed a vinyl billboard tarp on the ground under my hives hoping it would help. It has but the SHB still find their way in. Will definitely try the GrubX! Thanks!

Do you guys rear queens all 'winter' long?

lol The first time I read Ellison's escape it angered me. I was trying to kills SHB and he was raising them plus allowed them to escape out into the world, Thanks for the video. SHB literally killed my bee yard. Now I have something new to try that's reportedly successful.

I have moles in my yard. They feast on Japanese beetle larvae, I suppose they'll also munch these!

arent you worried about GrubX getting into the honey?

If they put this stuff in a pollen paty, the bees will store it in the hive.. What is it going to do to a person who eats it?

Has anyone sprayed the grub killer water on bee larvae? If the poison is in the pollen patty, the bee "grubs" might be exposed to it. I want to know it it hurts them.

thanks man

Any advice for earwigs?

What is the Mason Jars for?

Very interesting. Now I need something to make the wax moths go extinct.

Why would anyone use a front feeder

I've met people in Florida who cut up political signs as traps but I don't know what they use to bait them

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Shb can travel 9 miles to a hive😊

Hhh I wonder Hydrogen Peroxide water mix and BT bacteria kill Squish vine borer organically. May work same for this larvae.

This does not work. I have tried it 2 years in a row.

She’s trying to help you and all you can do is be sarcastic to her. Sad.

I don't want no grub, a grub is a worm that can't get no honey from bees (stupid song)

I am glad you are trying this experiment. I tried using the beer traps experiment in the hives and in my area of Georgia (Atlanta) the heat would either evaporate the beer or cause it to ferment. The trap is Cutts Mini beetle Blaster. It is a shorter and deeper than a regular Beetle Blaster. This is what the young man used at the University of Florida. I tried it on six hives, using both types of Beetle Blaster. Beer in the mini and oil in the regular size. I think the beer would work if you could check it every day to see if it is present. No, the bees or the beekeeper are not drinking the beer. It was recommended by the speaker to use Miller High Life beer as it did better than the other types or brands of beer in the experiment. I think I will try the experiment again this year and see if I can spend a little more time working it. I saw the video and you are the first I have seen to use it. Please check your hives of a beetle count before and after you start to see if you can find a true reduction of beetles. I enjoy your tips. www.mannlakeltd.com/login.php?action=check_passwordless_login&token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvd3d3Lm1hbm5sYWtlbHRkLmNvbSIsImlhdCI6MTY2OTg1NDEyOCwiZXhwIjoxNjY5OTA4MTI4LCJkb21haW4iOnsiY3VzdG9tZXJJZCI6MjM4ODIsInRva2VuIjoiOWIyNTM3NzAxNTZiZmI0MzgyZWE4Mjk0Y2JhYWY4NGI5ZDY2NDZmNzkyZTJkMmY5M2NkNjYzYTUyODJlNjFkOCJ9fQ.F-duFM94GxQWMO_mJEqrbtkr-4EUMBRMTsf--AA8s3U&redirectUrl=%2Fcheckouts

I've watched Dr. Bartlett;'s presentation a few times. His focus was on chlorantraniliprole, which is the active ingredient in "Scotts® GrubEx®₁ Season Long Grub Killer" (from Scott's website). I've found several grubex products with differing actives. HIs preliminary work was feeding small hive beetle (shb) larvae pollen sub mixtures with some untold portion of grubex mixed in. As best I can tell, the shb larvae go into the soil only to pupate, as their food is not in the ground, but in the hive. What is your opinion of the control mechanism responsible for your results?

Good info, subbed and saw that Bennie presentation N.E. Fl. Beek🤡🤡