Don't try this at home! OAV treatment indoors

I'm still experimenting with treating varroa mites with oxalic treatments in my wintering facility. I try two different applicators.

[MinnesotaBeekeeper]

A tube camera in the center of the cluster would be nice.

[hootervillehoneybees]

Must of found some crazy high mite loads going full DR Frankenstein on them .. I just ordered one of those human size mites guy makes them on his 3D printer.

[josephchianelli]

Lol, hold me beer, I've got this

[russellkoopman]

The control mite may have come from normal death or old age - but with so little debris the hive might be a dead-out also with a mite just dying since it has no hosts to eat on.
Wonder how quick the phoretic mites die when exposed to OA? Maybe the sheets should have been put in first??
Sure doesn't seem like a very big die off of mites. Most videos I see with sticky boards 3 days later, have lots and lots of mites on invested hives (100 or more).

[FrankfurtFury]

Phil, do you think the OA is actually penetrating the clusters? What temp is your shed kept at?

[paulbuiks]

Phil Im sure your aware but those filters aint going to protect your vitals...lol

[bill]

Last wk I treated 1 hive wintering indoors. I also just used paper with layer of oil on it left it in for 24hrs. I got a drop count of 26mites. But idk what that means being this fall was 1st time used oxalic and also 1st time used a way to check for mite drop after a treatment. This same hive had a drop of 187 mites 24hrs after 1st treatment in end of November and 76 after the 2nd treatment couple days later. Do u think it's worth treating again with a drop count at 26 after 24hrs. Do you think it causes to much stress on them, and shed was at 38F do u think that it's to cold to be a effective treatment

[zarkobojanic]

And what about varoa in brood? you shoud treat them 2-3weeks earlier.