Bee SAFE Hive Beetle Poison! Exciting Innovation!

The UGA Bee Lab and the beekeeping product company PowerB2B are partnering to test a bee-safe ‘attract and kill bait’ to be used in small hive beetle traps. In 2024 we have partnered to run a study comparing different insecticides put in as baits inside SHB traps. We hope that chlorantraniliprole, a new pesticide which the UGA Bee Lab has been working with, will be approved for use by EPA. This insecticide is a bee safe alternative to neonicotinoids in turf lawn management and is used as a honeybee safe insecticide during the almond bloom.
The research is being led by Bee Lab Professor Dr. Lewis Bartlett and graduate student Ian Collins. Ian graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the UGA Department of Entomology in 2021 and then went on to work as a research technician at the UGA Bee Lab. In 2023 Ian became a PhD student at the bee lab, funded by Project Apis m. and the National Honey Board, and has been working on the use of chlorantraniliprole to control small hive beetles in supplemental pollen feeding as the focus of his research.

[kamonreynolds]

Shbtrap.com - The current Bye Bye Beetle Bait is not what University of GA is working on. BELOW is a statement from UGA.
The UGA Bee Lab and the beekeeping product company PowerB2B are partnering to test a bee-safe ‘attract and kill bait’ to be used in small hive beetle traps. In 2024 we have partnered to run a study comparing different insecticides put in as baits inside SHB traps. We hope that chlorantraniliprole, a new pesticide which the UGA Bee Lab has been working with, will be approved for use by EPA. This insecticide is a bee safe alternative to neonicotinoids in turf lawn management and is used as a honeybee safe insecticide during the almond bloom.
The research is being led by Bee Lab Professor Dr. Lewis Bartlett and graduate student Ian Collins. Ian graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the UGA Department of Entomology in 2021 and then went on to work as a research technician at the UGA Bee Lab. In 2023 Ian became a PhD student at the bee lab, funded by Project Apis m. and the National Honey Board, and has been working on the use of chlorantraniliprole to control small hive beetles in supplemental pollen feeding as the focus of his research.

[tonywestsbees]

I'm glad the beetles are being addressed more proactively. I'm looking forward to trying this.

[Shbtrap]

Thanks for the video Kamon!

We appreciate the recognition and are confident that our traps and bait will control the SHBs, allowing bee hives to thrive!

[jerrywilson]

Been baiting SHB for years. Equal parts of honey, pollen powder and DE into a beetle barn or beetle blaster. Also in middle Tennessee.

[cartert]

These traps are great. I'm using them under the inner cover and in the trays under my Apimaye bottom boards designed for wooden boxes. Traps are easy to open and refill with bait, and they are virtually indestructable. I believe the bait currently used is boric acid mixed with pollen patty, but I'm not sure.

[wadebarnes]

I have made mine for years and it works great

[russellaymond]

Thank you for information, great news

[thilltony]

Finally having a commercial product to control beetles is great!
But Hive Beetle Murder Sauce is incredibly effective and the bees won't touch it or be harmed by it. I'm in a hot part of VA where hive beetles run rampant, and it's been a 100% success. Murder sauce is shortening with some DE and a few drops of Eucalyptus oil mixed in. Looks just like that stuff, but it's super cheap to make. You put little smears in the corners where the bees tend to herd the beetles. Bees won't touch it, and you will have ZERO, and I mean ZERO beetles in all of your hives after a little while. Putting them into those little covers you show isn't a bad idea either, but I never have with zero negative effects.
Good to see you again, Kamon!

[curtis]

Great info about the Beatles. I hope I get to try this out because they are bad where I live.

[framcesmoore]

I got mine yesterday and started putting them in my hives today. Hope it works i got over $200 worth. Thanks for sharing this on your live chat. Have a great day

[DavidLaFerney]

I just ordered some - thanks for the suggestion.

[ZelmaBees]

I received my shipment today. I've had a real struggle this year with beetles and I'm hoping this a real alternative to the swiffer sheets, especially after learning from Fred Dunn how the bees actually ingest some of the fibers. Thank you UGA and Kamon!

[eddybarker]

Just ordered some to try out Kamon. TY!

[brianbennett]

I order it. Thank you I just started getting hive Beatles uggg. 😊

[lgalardi]

Got mine ordered! I've never really had an SHB problem until this year. We've had excessive amounts of rain. Even my strong hives are seeing more Hive beetles than normal. This video was very timely.

[karlfowler]

This is great news. I found lots of beetles trapped on my swiffer sheets yesterday and wished there was more I could do. The Oil traps had a few, but the Swiffer sheets caught a lot of them.

[Manuherikiabeekeeping]

Extra points for the under pottle zap. 😂

[SteveJones-rvnm]

Among, thanks for great information. I assume you will keep us informed about the progress and when it will be available to us beekeepers.

[rickwade]

This will work for most hives but I have one that attracts beetles in plague numbers. I use a small cordless vacuum on my worst hive and have been catching over 100+ beetles per DAY in that one hive for the last month. I caught 624 beetles in this hive 4 days ago, and the numbers have been cut in half each day since. I tried Beetle Barns with a mixture of Crisco and Boric Acid but didn’t see any dead beetles using those.

[Ttenkampf]

Reminds me of the CD case traps that I started out using but a much better size. I am sure the bait is better than the old lard and boric acid mixture too. I have Beetle Blaster Baseboards that I cycle around through troubled hives, they are excellent but not cheap. I also love the Guardian excluders.