Checking Colonies For Brood in December

After a warm fall we're inspecting colonies in December with the hopes of finding them broodless so we can deliver an affective oxalic acid vaporization treatment for varroa mites.

[costasantoniou]

Hello, Bob! First time to contact you, although Iam watching your work, with great interest and admiration.Iam sending this from Athens Greece, and here we are not familiar with the Fahrenheit scale, so every time you give a temperature I Google it to convert it to Celsius!I just saw that you were sublimate with 40 f(4, 4c) that’s cold and the bees cluster, I was wandering is it something you see effective? Wishing you all the very best for the new year, health, prosperity, and good luck in everything you do for the years to come. Tino, from Athens Greece a fellow beekeeper!

[aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I agree, the second round of OAV is important. If the treatment gets 75%, on a 7% colony, first time will knock down 5.5%, second time will knock down 1.3%.

[bryanbetournay]

Thanks for an other great video Bob and Crew.

[vickenbekeredjian]

Beautiful Video Bob, mine didn't go into broodless period, my bees will struggle varroa, but I thought that POL line meant polygenic cause they are monitored by those 16 genes that heritate resistance to mites .
Thanks to the Video, appreciate your all knowledge 👍

[timlewis]

Good morning Bob and BRHC, I will not be checking for brood till the end of Feb., I'm in Maine. Have a great wk.

[julibottjen]

Just did the same thing 3 days ago (did not do mite wash however) Was really happy to see some great numbers and great resources in store.

[subjob]

I had those Pol Lines as well. Man, they are good type of bees. They like to reproduce like there's no tomorrow. I like to see my colonies full of bees; their color is beautiful.

[MagnoliaSpringsFarm]

Good afternoon, Bob and crew! Hope you get some needed rest as next week is going to be crazy!

John: Louisiana is known for their spiciness!!

That made this Louisiana girl laugh. 😂

[Cody-fcbr]

We had a day of 60f yesterday, i got into my hives. All broodless but one had a small patch about the size of a baseball. Stores look good and mite counts all good. Huntsville alabama, god bless

[deanmalkewich]

By November, our hives are wrapped up for 5 months.
Somewhere between then and mid March, the itch to start working bees infects us, not sure when exactly. Seeing you open hives in December confirms it’s later than now. 😂

[framcesmoore]

Ha Bob another great video. Really enjoy every one u do. I hope u and everyone there has a Happy Newyear. Also hope u have a wonderful time at the expo. God Bless and have a great week.

[rajbeekie]

They look great.
Beekeeping in the southern US is a whole lot different from beekeeping in MN.

[aileensmith]

We will be doing just as you are doing in a couple of weeks. Not going to find brood. However not so sure as to the much warmer than normal temperatures? Predicted that today may be the hottest December day on record. It gets cool at night but not freezing and below as is normal this time of year. Of course we also learned a couple of things in this video. As always Thank You for sharing!

[dcsblessedbees]

Morning Bob and Crew, I Hope you all had a Wonderful Christmas.
I think we are going to have to watch food stores this year, a lot of videos of colonies are going through food quick this Winter.

[BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer]

Nice to see hives being opened while ours are under half a foot of snow!

[altaylor]

As usual, great content. Sorry I will miss seeing you in Louisville this year but hope all goes well for you. Happy New Year.

[shanepetty]

Hey, I’m interested in keeping bees. Haven’t started yet. Going to my local beehive meeting. Very informative video. Great information.

[timmiller]

Hope to see you in a few days! Worked the bees yesterday here in Ohio, with temps in the 60’s. Piling on the fondant.

[russellkoopman]

Thanks Bob and hope you have a great New Years.

[johniac]

The Merrimack folks are my neighbors!! Good folk. Happy New Year!