Beekeeping | Tiny Little Box For Big Mite Control!

Beekeeping means keeping your mites under control and with this tiny box, you'll be amazed as how it helps.

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[RyanFerreri]

Using OA after confining the queen for the week can maximize the effectiveness of the treatment, because you have the minimum amount of capped brood.

[johngarrison]

question, But caging the queen and creating a brood break can it cause the bees to think the queen is failing and thus create super-cedural cells and in turn cause the bees to work on re-queening the hive?

[fred]

Wetting your clothes before you go out into the heat helps a lot, thanks for sharing all the beekeeping knowledge .

[keithpadbury]

It was not clear to me how confining the Queen reduces mite populations. I understand that there is no capped cells for the mites to lay into but surely the total adult mite population still exits attached to bees. It seems to me the adult mites simply re-enter (lay into) the new brood cells when the queen is released after a fortnight. Do i need to treat with miticide when there i no (or little) capped brood left?

[doranbutler]

lol, cowboy up. It really takes longer to procrastinate and dred than most tasks take...funny boy

[citizenscientist]

Why not take your queen into a nuc and allow her to work, leave the hive to make you a new queen then swap the queens in a month and you have done exactly what your goal was and get a nuc out of it?

[joetripp]

I've heard from many beekeepers here in NC that they too haven't seen many small hive beetles. 11:32 I've experienced the same. Perhaps they go through cycles over the years. Oh, I've found wearing a rolled up bandana on my head (or a buff) will help with the sweat running into my eyes. Hope that helps ya. Hey... maybe we can get some nice bee themed bandanas / buffs somewhere...

[octaviandocan]

Hey Dave! My name is Octavian and I have a question, but firstly I want to congratulate you for the work done, for the passion you show and the motivation with which you want to share so much information with the beekeepers of the world🎉🤩🤩🤩🐝. I'm from Romania and I have several beehives that I've been taking care of for a year.
The food for bees that I use contains, in addition to a supplement of minerals, amino acids and vitamins, an extract of medicinal plants, but also mushrooms (trametes versicolor). (from my own studies related to the work of Paul Staments and fungi in the life of bees). I would like to ask you what medicinal plants you think I could use and if what I am doing is correct?

[thorntonrodgers]

Great video Dave. Where do you get that small cage? The small round cage is all I’ve found online.

[arielswings]

Can I purchase one of those cages?
Vancouver Canada...

[jillmondt]

I heard that placing forest floor clippings along with earwigs at the bottom of one’s bee-hives really works for getting rid of varroa mite. Any thoughts? Please reply.

[thedel]

Hey Dave, I knew you would be a convert to horizontal hive beekeeping! It really is a no brainer. When I got into beekeeping, I looked at the different ways and horizontal hives was the best way to go. Enjoy slowly changing over your apiary to more and more horizontal hives. It's so less intrusive, that you are not killing bees and they remain alot more calmer. Enjoy, I Love it.

[thomaskoppenhaver]

Great video David. I laughed when you was a parody of me!

[Shewwler]

You poor, poor man! Having to go out in that vicious HEAT! LOL. (Very funny)

[stephenluna]

Thanks for struggling through the humidity. Also very happy to see the progress of the horizontal hive.

[kathyhathaway]

Yep working the bees on a hot days an putting a bee suit on a hot day an lighting a hot smoker on a hot day “ IS A HOT IDEA “ LOL. Thanks

[brianbennett]

Thanks for the video 😊 see ya Thursday 4 the live stream 😊

[danplatt]

Super interesting concept! I currently have a weak hive (failed queen) but look forward to trying this method next year with a stronger hive. Thanks David!

[PGrace-chmj]

THANK YOU! I have two Layens hives that are sitting empty right now because mite treatment last year was a disaster. They became mite bombs and infected my other hives. I lost 12 out of 14 hives due to this disaster. I wanted to find ways to treat mites in the Layens as I am not in an area where I can go treatment free. This is a very good start. I have queen excluder cages for my Langstroth hives, but haven't found anything I can cause a brood break with my Layens until now. This is HUGE! Thank you! I hope to have my Layens hives up and running next year. You are right, there is something about horizontal hives - they are such a joy and so peaceful to work! ❤

[vicpinto]

I've resorted to wearing a cooling vest under my suit in this hot weather. It helps.