Evaluating Hopguard as a winter treatment for Varroa Mites.

I tested hopguard to see if the honeybee colonies could tolerate the strips being in the hives during the long Canadian Winter. I learned that this worked fairly well on some hives where mites had been just below the treatment threshold of 2% in September (2020.

[neil]

Nice video. I feel like my bees would be stinging me like crazy.

[russellkoopman]

Tools are so important. Thanks for sharing the idea of using hopguard overwinter.
Did you by any chance take a mite wash on the hives that didn't get hopguard?
Thanks and have a good week.