Great video Skinny Beeman u are really putting some excellent information out there. Please keep em coming. These are the videos beekeepers need to see. EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!!
I'm glad you mentioned moisture! I've lost probably more hives to moisture than anything else over the last few years. It's natural for us humans to wanna button em up when it's cold but that'll make moisture. I have them vented and since I've lost very few to moisture.
good job Joe, Fat bee man does a good job too but quits just a little soon sometimes, he has been in it so long he forgets to tell us all he knows unless some one reminds him. i'm in Va. like all good bee keeper videos.
Thanks for the tips Joe. Never could get my fogger, that worked fine with oils. To completely evaporate distilled water, or pga. But after toying with it. Found a 60% glycerin works awesome. Best oxalic acid applicator on you tube! Thanks a million! :-}
I have no bees or experience but i have watched many videos. Have you seen the powdered sugar treatment? I've seen what you're doing also. I don't know if 1 is more of an urgent treatment but the sugar seems great. I wonder if they get a free feeding by doing it?? Best wishes. Love to see you guys bring the populations back. . Thanks for the video & saving bees! 👍👍👍👍💓
I can't help but to think that the natural brood breaking is why you said you always move the queen when making your splits. Laying queen and a couple food frames go to new box and the others are left to make their own queen...basically sounds like the same thing.
I really did not understand your comment. But when you move the queen most of the bees will stay in the box with her. She will be laying right away the split on the other hand won't be so they need all of the field force and guard bees to keep the hive from being robbed. Robbers know when a hive is queen less.
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemay I was thinking a brood break in the queenless splits while the brood hatches out and is waiting on the mated queen to return and start laying eggs again. Makes the mites rush into all the newly laid egg cells?
I just treated today with the oxalic acid vaporizer. When they say to remove the honey supers is that if they are for human consumption because I don't intend to harvest any more of the honey. The remaining honey is just for the bees so I left the honey supers on.
The US was in such a hurry to get oxalic acid approved. They just done a short label with little testing. EU has been use it for 20+ years with honey suppers on for human consumption. The answer to your question is you only have to take honey off for human consumption.
Who are the guys u listen to? Because I'd like to listen to them too! Do they have youtube channels, Web sites, books? Please share so we can all benefit. Great Stuff "Skinny Beeman ".
Barnyard and my self are commercial student of fat bee man, Michael Palmer Kent Williams. I am in the bee yard every day with lots of hives. I try a lot of things some work some don't. I only tell you guys the ones that work.
One of the highly respected posters of bee videos says in one of his videos that he used to vaporize OA and did not believe it was working. I just got done with my third week of vaporizing man I hope he is wrong. Been watching your videos for awhile thanks for all the help.
I have herd guys say they use it and still had mites. One thing a lot of people don't think about is say you got a double deep 10 frame and there honey suppers on. You vaporize from the bottom with no vent holes in the boxes the vapor will not go all the way to the top. I have vent holes in every box and a big vent in the bottom of the hive top feeder. When I vaporize I crack the lid and vapor come out the top. It' like trying to heat a room in a house with out a cold air return. You can't force more air in than is coming out.
Thanks for the reply. I have had very poor winter survival here in Iowa. Lost all 6 hives last year and bought 5 more packages this year and finally getting serious about learning to keep them going. I am up to 12 hives and this is the first time treating for mites. My splits were queened with Ohio raised queens. Hoping for a better outcome next spring.
I have 2 box deep stacked nucs now full of bees. I am in northern NC , Would it be best to split the boxes now try get a queen raised before winter, so the bees wont be too strong for over wintering. Thanks Skinny for your Info. OldDan
It's hard to say because I can't see how strong they are. I am going to make my last splits of the year in two weeks. They will be five frame splits with a queen cell hatching the day after I make the splits.
I am learning alot from you. THANK YOU! One question do you put screen over some of the extra holes you add to the boxes and what size holes? Thank you again.
I am going to add a little glycerin in the distilled water and acid. They use glycerin on stage to make fake fog or smoke. I want to be able to see it coming out the top of the box. I said I might use the glycerin and shop towels next year if Randy Oliver has good numbers on his trials.
yes I give her a frame of bee any mites on the bees will rush to the cells that are ready to be capped. There won't be any ready until seven days. There will be to many mites per cell, they will die.Brood break dose not 100% of mites but it makes the numbers so low the queen can out lay the mite population.
Thanks. I tried it today but it seemed as though the distilled water and oxalic acid wanted to gurgle out of the fogger even with the fogger completely hot. It didn't come out the same way mineral oil does. Do you experience the same thing?
You need to add glycerine to the water which will create a dense fog. But you don't need to mix it yourself - just buy a gallon of "DJ Party Fog" on Amazon, then mix your oxalic into it accordingly.
Bees live 6 week they only live 3 weeks as field bees. The bees they are making now are winter bees don't know all the science behind it but they can live for 2 or 3 months. And you are right the queen will lay a little brood all winter.
@@LittleBitsHoneyBeesjoemay thank you, thank you, thank you!! I appreciate you so much! I just checked my crabby hives, and I don't see any eggs in one of them. There were 2 supercedure (?) queen cells, opened, but will this hive just die over the winter? Probably too late for anyone to come in and save it, right (Michigan)?
A lot of people use them with great results. I don''t use any pesticide in my hives. A few loose a queen using them. I am not here to tell you how to treat for mites just here to say you have to control mites if you are going to raise bees.
