Have to say Kamon that you do an excellent interview! Great interview! I recommend you take some Dramamine and blood pressure medication before you talk about bureaucracy. Thanks!
I think part of the problem is how “greedy” we are. I don’t keep bees for honey. I just think they are cool. Soooo. I don’t manage my hives very well. I’ve treated one time ever. My first / oldest is 4 or 5 years and it was on my property and I hired someone to do a trap out. I let the bees draw their own comb and do their thing. When there is some extra honey I grab it sometimes. They swarm and make tons of drones. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area on some open space and catch swarms on my property or nearby. I notice most of the bee keepers in my local club replace their bees most years (225.00per nuke!). I wonder if our management practices are a major part of the mite problem. I do lose some colonies, but I’m about 6 or 7 consistently without doing anything.
Great discussion. Got to meet David at the Big Bee Buzz in Tulsa, OK. We disscussed his bear bag, hive hang. 😊 He is a great asset to the bee keeping community.
Very informative especially for newbies like me. Thank you Kamon and David. I learned alot and will watch this video at least another 20 times to absorb all the information! Thank you for all you do, Laurel yoo!
Keith from Australia, we are yet to join you , in the varroa fight, so fore told, is fore warned, great program, to watch,thank you kepm & David, cheers Keith 😊
David have you ever looked at the BeeWeavers. We have used them for 5 yrs. We don't split them except in the spring. And they have maybe 1 mite in a mite wash. I think Frederick Dunn has seen the same results in Penn. As have many others.
Been using Swedish sponges with glycerin since August 2022 . Vaporizing 5 times every 5 days.. been alcohol washing my hives since March. Pulling 0 mites in the washes
@@tomahawkmissile241 Varroa is the main reason. With strips alone you have varroa. You still get varroa doing it all, I am trying to keep my applications as needed in my bee yard. Normal vaporizing, 3 weeks after treatment of OA, I would get varroa. Adding the strips to treated hives keep them healthy. This procedure is promising when you have several hundred hives...
@@tomahawkmissile241 a zero count doesn’t mean no varroa. It only means the count is below the minimum pre determined threshold. Mites are still in the hive and reproducing.
AND of all the things allowed to be imported from there honey 🍯 should not be one of them especially knowing how they adulterate it . LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY Get your polititions to shut it down
Is it possible that some of the OA leaves a bit of a resin inside of the vaporizer over time so is it possible that a newer unit could be more effective than an older one? Or like you guys said, differences between brands and models.
I use 4 grams for 2 brood boxes and have treated 9 times so far this fall and am seeing HUGE mite drops each time. Interval all within 6 days. I feel like its nothing like Formic Pro where no more mites drop after 2 weeks. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the video. OA is not effective if there is brood in the hive. Have you thought of making broodless period during May harvest using queen isolator made out of queen excluder material. Close her up for 21 days and treat. Europeans are doing it very effectively now.
I will continue to use the LEAST amount of miticide I have to. Raising feral bees and not made my bees much better in their natural defensiveness/pest fighting abilities trying to breed out that to get "nice bees" has already caused us to now inclined to increase dosages of OA ect. I do the mite counts use only as needed.
i've used mineral oil and wintergreen oil for years sometime i do use oxcalic acid to if they get to hi couple oxcalic acid treatment and esential oil reg in between works good for me
I'm in Wisconsin and have top bar hives and my bees survived. I used oa vape and hopguard 3 and mite treatments. I used Randy Oliver's hopguard 3 experiment that is online. Every 2 weeks 3 times.
Cali outlawed OA vapoization.... Do they allow OA treated hives to migrate into Cali for almond pollination? If so are they attempting to guard against a toxic bee, toxic honey or maintaining a toxic hive in their state. If its the honey, do they not allow imported honey?
With some insecticides the EPA regulates the applicator device. I hope with this talk of temperatures on the label and percentage lost that the EPA doesn't get into making Vaporizer Companies register there products. Sorry for these late comments but somehow I just got notification from utube.
Almost all companies that sell OA in USA will not provide you a Certificate of Analysis for their OA. This certificate tells the age and the contaminants percentages. Be careful. As of right now the EPA and USDA., 3 grams per brood box may be OKed with my tablets.
yeah the bees hate ox acid, divided the hive queen would no go near or over the strips, however i love to hear isreal slow release vaporizer, just a puff every so often, even vaporizes apivar with 90% chemical.
could always let the bees requeen with a split but it best to monitor the mites even with a puff emitor. Even try adding some new genetics like VSH, Minnosota Mite biter, Russian
