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@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

Apivar/thymol Colonies counting zeros all day long. I have treatment “holes” which my teenage crew misses treatments, that I’m using as my controls. Apivar/Thymol 0-.3% Thymol only colonies counting 3% Apivar only colonies counted 5% higher

@dcsblessedbees 2 ай бұрын

Videos like this is why I watch for your Channel Ian. I have gained a great deal of information from you over the years. Thank you very much for your approach to gaining data and the sharing of of that information.👍 In my limited opinion the holding ability of the OA overtime can be a game changer, get the knock down how you will and allow the OA overtime and the bees to maintain the lower levels.

@Drewjober 2 ай бұрын

The OA extended release vs vapor?

@DeanGoedel 2 ай бұрын

You identified a problem then used past knowledge and experiences, tools available, and your knowledge of bee biology to move towards a solution for this problem with your livestock. A farmers purpose and resourcefullness is amazing! Wait till you see whats in store for us next year😊. Have a great day

@bobbinnie9872 2 ай бұрын

What is the news in Canada on the future use of oxalic acid extended release pads.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

The word is registration of the DYI OA sponge treatment will be approved this winter

@mikeshaw8744 2 ай бұрын

Sideline beekeeper = First year of using Swedish sponge OA/Glycerin during flow. Multiple alc. washes performed between July thru end of Sept. 2 out of 50 hives had 19 and 23 mid Sept. The rest were mostly 0 or 1 with a couple 4 to 7. 50 hives with each inspection recorded. NW Oregon.

@paullewis6612 2 ай бұрын

I understand everything that you’ve said, and I’m 100% with you. If my opinion means anything! Good on you for all those zeroes. 👌🏼

@jamestownsendjrtbees3226 2 ай бұрын

I have been using apivar now for 5 years early fall and so far have lost 1 colony to mites and it was a mite bomb nuc I purchased late my senond year. I know it's a lot of extra work but I go in at day 21 and I scratch all the strips and reinstall between the brood. I also do o/a vapor over winter when the brood is minimal. That combination has worked for me so far. Good luck this winter.

@drjmarkrodgers1428 2 ай бұрын

Would Love to hear about that dry marker board behind you.

@jasonseaward8506 2 ай бұрын

Agreed lol. I know each of the yards is up on that whiteboard, and I believe each box is each thing he has scheduled for each yard but I'm not certain so I would love to see how he organized everything

@colecrick7223 2 ай бұрын

I have been doing the apivar + oxalic vapor every 4-5 days to my 50 hives tested 0-3 mites in my last washes where i was having 10% infestation just after honey flow very similar mite explosion you saw. Little nervous as the mite count probably didn’t drop as fast as it seemed with the thymol but will see what happens basically brood free now so one more vapor and strips out then see how it goes

@duanevonbargen7516 2 ай бұрын

I don't know what happened with my use of Apiguard, thymol treatment. In several hives I had a mite increase after treatment. Two colonies the increase was huge, like seven fold. I'm now in the midst of OA vaping and it is appearing to knock back the mites from my bottom boards on my Apimaye systems. Really like your explanations and your channels, I take a lot of info and learn from it.

@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po 2 ай бұрын

Nice yard board behind you … Thank you for your explanations!! Your actions are well thought out! I see your struggles and concerns with the numbers you run and it makes me only think/wonder what struggles the big guys go through that have 50,90 and100k hives …. They either use mite treatments that we don’t have access to or know something I think we don’t

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

Yes, me too. But this thymol mixed it up

@johniac7078 2 ай бұрын

Mr. S. I am very interested in learning if you are seeing any signs of mite borne disease like DWV? The reason I ask is that willd colonies can have high mite levels, but no disease. Immunity? In the mean time, I have learned a hell of a lot from you. My first year as a sideliner, using your principles and those of Mike Palmer, was a success!!! THANKS!!!!

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

I have high viral counts but no symptoms

@jasonseaward8506 2 ай бұрын

There was a video i was watching (i cant remember which one) but i remember someone mentioning that there was some concerns about the apivar strips having some quality control issues basically where not each strip is made equally so some strips are strong and some are not. Im not sure if its acurate or true, but its definitely something id love to learn more about myself. I hope thats not the case, but who knows?

@naturalwitchery 2 ай бұрын

I use oxalic vapor 7 days apart for 4 treatments in August and then thyme once it cools in late September and early October.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

That’s a lot of work but it probably would work, on paper anyway

@ivaylo126 Ай бұрын

Ian can you look with magnifying glass for trapilapsoze mite?

@jamesruan913 2 ай бұрын

My bees are brining in pollen are they bringing in pollen for eating themselves or still feeding the queen or storing pollen to feeding emerging brood?

@chamberelga1653 2 ай бұрын

I was thinking going back to use apivar next year. And back up with Thymol and oa vap.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

That’s my plan

@chamberelga1653 2 ай бұрын

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I don't feel I was doing enough to kill the mites this fall.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

@@chamberelga1653 I watched your work, you did as much as most everybody does. We don’t have enough tools .

@chamberelga1653 2 ай бұрын

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I can't wait for the approval of an oa extended release, that would be very ideal treatment to use early spring, and then maybe formic in early summer. I think it would help a lot. And if we only use Apivar in fall, it may help not to allow the resistance to go worse. I don't know. It always make you.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

@@chamberelga1653 we need our regulators to hurry up

@Котик-ч8ш7х 2 ай бұрын

In Russia we use amitraz+ thymol nearly 20 years...

@inharmonywithearth9982 Ай бұрын

Same in USA. We used the Amitraz in the cattle ear tags since 1999 and thymol too.

@leroyharder4491 2 ай бұрын

Seems extended release oxalic will be the short term solution to hold mites at bay from spring to fall, whenever it gets approved. A longer term solution is identifying VSH, testing productive colonies using harbo or VBO assays done in the spring before you make queens. It will be expensive at first with few colonies being identified. I have some saskatraz hybrids that provided drones for a queen daughters of Huxter lineage. I will be testing strong colonies coming out of spring with VBO and seeing if I have something to reinforce.

@larrytornetta9764 2 ай бұрын

What is the latest on oxalic acid sponges?

@jonathanswoboda 2 ай бұрын

VarroxSan has been approved in the US but not Canada as far as I know.

@daveshearn2743 2 ай бұрын

VarroxSan is expensive for what is essentially a hold the line treatment. When compared to making your own sponges.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

We are close to DYI registration

@jonathanswoboda 2 ай бұрын

@@daveshearn2743 They claim 95% efficacy but I havent tried it. It is expensive, similar to Apivar and a lot more than formic pro.

@docholiday3189 2 ай бұрын

is there no faster an more efficient way of apply the ox acid ?? I only use this with perfect results , there must be a way for you using this tool in a manor that fit s your big opertaion

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

Quicker dosent always mean better

@docholiday3189 2 ай бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Of course not , but when you can do better quicker ,you are on the spot

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog 2 ай бұрын

@@docholiday3189 agreed

@ludgermerkens 2 ай бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog If you could cage the queens approx. 14 day prior to your last harvest, you could apply ox a week after harvest (21 days after caging) in a broodless period. you'd have good efficacy and enough time for the bees to catch up with the broodbreak. But I fear catching 1000+ queens is prohibitive.

@researcherAmateur 2 ай бұрын

We do it regularly.. but it has to start with you using glue to put a little colored number on the queens back. I'm not saying its easy to cage a 1000 queens.. but I'll put it this way.. for me it's much easier than doing vaporizations a couple times a week. I have to cage them and l can go on a vacation for 3- 4 weeks. Nothing will happen if they get released on day 30. Those bees live like winter bees

@hootervillehoneybees8664 2 ай бұрын

If you slipped in a drone frame couple weeks out you get 70% pulling that when you add the apivar. You wouldn't have mites in your worker brood ether.. mechanicals don't cost anything . I'm going to find a Asian market next summer start selling my mites

@derekvandenheuvel3207 2 ай бұрын

Oxalic/glycerine pads

@tachedegraisse1303 2 ай бұрын

This it not legal in Canada yet.

@danielweston9188 2 ай бұрын

@@tachedegraisse1303 but is it illegal?

@aaronparis4714 2 ай бұрын

I think it’s because you have so many colonies there passing the mites back and forth

@sidelinerbeekeeper 2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine Apivar being effective while feeding and brood hiding the mites for a slow continuous release of fresh new mites as the strip loose its affects. There are millions of summer bees within his thousands of hives and include his neighbors' thousands of hives within a few miles and all the swarms lost loaded with mites, not being treated all robbing from each other. How do they expect Apivar to work? I believe you, but most won't. They just want it to work so badly.

@sidelinerbeekeeper 2 ай бұрын

Randy Oliver did a study on drifting and robbing. I think Apivar is useless with feeding, I think Ian also does a bit of open feeding to get some of those mites back off the swarms he lost. Good god.lol But the robbing does slow down after a few gallons and with the lost of summer bees. Thymol in there stopped it.