Great series! It was a little sad to see you crush a bee between hive bodies ... perhaps brush the bees off before applying the strips directly on them? Thanks for your consideration.
15ml @ 65% concentration (check out scientificbeekeeping) That's if you add it yourself, these MAQS are lower concentration. If you just buy pure(ish) Formic Acid, it's cheap and easy to make these pads. Go to a butcher and ask for a few of those meat blood soaking pads placed at the bottom of meat/poultry packs. Make a bunch, store them in plastic ziploc bags and use them when needed. Easy peasy!
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 you're a beast thos is exactly what I've been looking for. Formic acid is so cheap. But the pads and all the shenanigans of this product or that. Give me a break, thought of using felt from a craft store and just loading it up with the straight formic acid. Bag to slow the spread.
@@Joseph-Colin-EXP DUDE. It's simple. Think outside the box. I go to butchers at large groceries and ask them for those weird little plastic pads they put beneath chicken to soak up blood. I then melt a few larger holes in the bottom of JUST the plastic. Then...add the correct concentration of formic acid (I think it's 65%) to the pad...Boom Acid costs almost nothing, the pads are free. I've also just used t-shirt and soak them with formic acid and throw them in the bottom (cotton)
@@Joseph-Colin-EXP It's been so long I didn't realize I basically rewrote what I said above...my bad. Ya man, you can treat for practically nothing. Same with Oxalic acid.
Usually undertaker bees carry the bees away from the hive but some get dropped. Sick bees crawl or get kicked out so it is likely that the dead bees that your are seeing are dead because of the varoosis you are treating.
