Randy Oliver: Varroa Management, Concepts and Practice 

I have noticed in Central Texas, the colonies that have had the screened bottom boards with the corrugated plastic completely removed for the heat, have a lower mite load than hives with a solid bottom board. But I also don’t have the experience of many thousands of hives, my data pool is much lower. More like hundreds, not thousands of hives.

Thanks for sharing this, Randy is great, I wish the sound would had been better. we missed out on a lot when the sound went out.

Randy Oliver is definitely a rockstar of the beekeeping world. I just don't like the lags in the audio. I feel like I'm missing some key PC's of information. Another question I have is why don't we test drones for mites at all times, or at least whenever they are available? Or maybe we should be taking any number we get from a regular wash and multiply it by 7 since they are on the drones more frequently by 7x

Thank you for this video. Appreciate it.

Great presentation 🎉

A young beekeeper on You Tube says that 'you' meaning anyone who has Varroa mite cannot eradicate them only control them which I find an astonishing statement because after three years I do not find any mites now as of spring 2024. I followed your methods and dangled the adsorbent stips 1 to 1 ox acid and food grade glycerine between 4 frames per hive for months. This did not seem to bother the bees one iota. All the three hives were busting at the seems and one swarmed. I caught that swarm and gave it a new Buckfast queen. This hive is now thriving after 10 days. The young lady might be doing something wrong because she is still persisting with vaporisation with O A.... I found that the fumigation with OA was not efficient due to killing hundreds of mites in one particular hive with the ER method = strips...... Why I wonder is there lame excuses publicised with the method that works even with supers on? best wishes to you in your excellent research regarding the so called illegal strips. I found they got me free of the worry of all the bloody lot of bees dying. As I said they are thriving .

kirk webster doing free treatment for 30 years oliver ptomotes now

Whats the ratio of Dawn to Water when diluting the detergent wash? Metric & Imperial measurements please :)

Hi everyone. What would be European analogue to Dawn detergent? We don't have it here in Europe 😔.

Freaking awesome video

45:41 what ration of the Dawn Ultra detergent to the water is used for mite count test? Is it same as "Dawn Ultra Dishwashing Liquid, Dish Soap"?

Randy, this hive has been living here without being treated against varroa and without being fed for at least, as far as we know, 29 years. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NM_agkweRmA.html. During the whole bee lining, I have not seen a single varroa in the thousands of bees I have marked during a week to find it.

That poor bee... Damn I hate the mites.

Same thing over and over.

Hey randy, I'm a small commercial queen breeder, I've experimented with try to breed vsh bees from a company in texas. No luck in reproducing bees that effectively handle mites. Do you know where I can find starter colonies or queens to start with.