NEW Small Hive Beetle trap - cheap, reusable, BEE FRIENDLY 

NEW BEEKEEPING VIDEO. Review of a BEE SAFE Diatomaceous Earth Small Hive Beetle trap, which is a bee safe non-toxic Physical Insecticide. Especially the super fine Absorbacide - amzn.to/10YbxVA - ultra fine dust less than 15 microns in size - which acts like razor blades to the small hive beetles outer casing. Once the hive beetles outer wax coating is compromised, it dries out and dies quickly. As it is a physical insecticide, the beetles will not build up a resistance to it. Diatamaceous Earth DE is a relatively safe insecticide to use for the control of the little pest hive beetles, however, in larger amounts, it can also kill your bees. So use it wisely and carefully. Still, the crystalline silica shards are non toxic, which to us is a whole lot more acceptable for use in our apiary than their chemical based counter parts. DE does not present any health hazards and has been approved by CSIRO for organic food producers. Other alternatives include oil based traps, such as the AJ Beetle Eater, or Beetle Blaster amzn.to/10YbCJ0, trap or similar under hive IPK Screened Bottom Board & Small Hive Beetle Traps amzn.to/1y8lMAI that also work well. These contain vinegar and oil in a dark plastic trap which has small openings on the top and as the bees chase the beetles around the hive, the beetle enters the trap and can no longer escape. Fantastic traps, but a little too messy. Oil often spills throughout the hive, and need to be replaced, emptied or replaced. Not the most pleasant task a beekeeper has to do during a hive inspection. So, we are trialing this neat version of Diatamaceous Earth Small Hive Beetle Trap. Costs around a dollar per unit, is reusable, kills beetles over a long period of time if kept DE remains dry, is bee friendly and easy to handle even when propolized by the bees. Beekeepers can prepare the traps away from the beehive, and simply place them on top of their frames under the top cover for easy access and manipulation. There are many great ways beekeepers deal with hive beetles and their control methods will vary widely. Similar traps can be homemade using a CD cover, a politicians sign, or any other similarly shaped containers. Let us know in the comments section below what methods you may have used or continue to use, especially if they work well. We'd love to hear from you! Hope you can join us next time, and please subscribe, share and/or give us thumbs up if you have found our videos useful. We and the bees very much appreciate your support. MahakoBees •eSTORE: www.mahakobees.com/store.html •Blog: mahakobees.com/blog •Blog kids: beekeepingwithkids.blogspot.com.au/ •RU-vid: ru-vid.com •Google+: plus.google.com/+MahakoBees •Facebook: facebook.com/mahakobees.mahakobees •Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/ •Twitter: twitter.com/mahakobees •Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/125372235@N04/ •Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/MahakoBees/ •Tumblr site: mahakobees.tumblr.com/ •Tumblr blog: www.tumblr.com/blog/mahakobees Music composed, performed and provided by Groovey - Adam Kubát a Pavel Křivák. You can visit their website on: www.groovey.cz/.

Thank you for posting the above video and for the replies to comments. I'm glad you maintain a great attitude, even with negative, pessimistic feedback. I think some people should think about what they're saying and the tone it might convey, before they post a comment. Is it something they'd say to their grandmother? Keep up the sharing! :-)

I don't know about the DE but I used Roach Proof and Crisco and it worked fine.

Thanks for the lead. I will follow up and if able to order and receive these I will add a post so others can follow through.

I see this is an old post and these look cool, but with 14 links to the item and none of them work, the original one was for New South Wales?, I'm in SC. I just ebayed some beetle barns which you can order for about 1.25 each and are a similar design except only has 1 big cavity in the middle . I was going to mix crisco and boric acid ( roach powder ) in mine which is not really toxic but gets in beetles exo skeleton the same way the DE does, I might put some of that in there after seeing this.

Very cool! I'll be getting some of these for sure.

None of your links for this beetle block work on amazon.

Can't finf this on Amazon. Where do you get this?

I would like to buy this but I can't find it anywhere. No link on this page takes me to a page or a website that carries this item. So frustrating.

Does the SHB trap fit inside the hive. Do you place it flat on the base board, if so how do you access it to clean it outor refill it? Where do you buy these traps?

Where can you get the hive beetle trap

where do you get the traps?

found these only in Australia from Quality beekeeping

did it work?

Where can you buy that trap? I checked the usual bee supply websites but I didn't see it listed anywhere. (I'm in the USA)

Any ideas on an alternative for the trap you use in this video? Doesn't appear to be available anymore.

How did these traps work out? Thanks for sharing. /mtm

Hi. What is the name of this trap? Who sells it? Thanks.

Where do I find this trap?

Never shares where this device was found, final analysis of how effective it was. You wasted everyone's time!

Why do you fill the comments with your own? It is very annoying and I would subscribe but you apparently do not want to see any comments but your own.

It is disingenous to "show" a product and not provide a direct link to purchase the item. These folks do give you a link to Amazon to buy DE, but without the trap who cares. All the post from Mahako Bees are 11 months old. Be careful in dealing with these folks as they are not keeping their site current and can't seem to answer the simple question of where this product can be purchased. No points for just pointing to eBay which does not show this product.