🔵DANGEROUS MITE LOADS 2 (The Results) - DID THYMOL WORK?

[@kamonreynolds]

Here is the first video where we discovered this hive had a 2% varroa infestation!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXvKlXR4hL2td6c 2% would be 6 mites in a wash of 300 bees. Half a cup is typically very close to 300 bees

[@yasminnilima2366]

so awesome to hear this! I usually use thymol here in sweden. Mix between Apiguard and pure thymol. I see similar result. This have been a good year though, so I need to think about that too. Seams like My beeyear is something between Michel Palmer and Ian Steppler. I lissen a lot to them explaining how to deal with bees. Without you Kamon and Bob and the rest of the comunity, I would be a much worse beekeeper and more of a beehaver.... All of you, thank for spreading the word and thanks for your love for bees and beekeepers! Lot´s of love from sweden!

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks Yasmin!

[@yasminnilima2366]

@@kamonreynolds I ow you my honey this year, first time of heather... rasberryhoney after midsummer and springhoney before midsummer... what a year.... and to that without electricity and a handmoved sling with only 2 frames!!!! But a lot of fun and I have more honey then ever. More bees then ever too. Send my love to Laurel! Hope to see all of you at the conference. I´ll have to see what will happen... the airlineticket costed 43 000 sek, about 4300dollars.... last time I checked... so... I´m not Bill Gates... But keep on dreaming the price will go down!

[@yasminnilima2366]

@@kamonreynolds I think I will have to stop checking in on airplanetickets... 47 806 kr is it up in now.... Richard noel, at this time it is probably cheaper to drive to you and take the plane from france with you......!

[@mike-md]

Kamon, thanks! Great Video! I appreciate all the hard work you and Laurel put in helping professionals and hobbyist alike!

[@kathyhathaway8823]

I hope the rest of your test treatments goes as well as this one did . Thanks for everything you all do for the Bee keeping family. THANKS

[@raysbees7650]

Incredibly helpful content! Thank you. You’ve helped make me a much better and successful beekeeper in a short 3 yrs.

[@beebob1279]

We had a rare flow this fall where I am. To a point where feeding won’t be necessary. Feels good not spending on syrup.

[@mattdolly7463]

Tried Randy's shop towel method.. left towels for 30 days. Bees totally ignored them and propolized them to the frames. Switched to vapor and that knocked the mites back.

[@TheUrbanBeekeepers]

Really good result! I'm excited to see how the extended release sponges go, I'm running them this year also.

[@jbeebuchanan2136]

Thank you Kamon. Can't wait to see the results on the extended OA I did the same Thymol treatment this year on 20 hives had great results except for one hive that totally ignored the Thymol. It was very strange they're a booming colony but they didn't remove the Thymol or slow down on the brood rearing. All of my other hives washed at 0's or 1's but they had 10.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks for sharing JBee

[@scottelkins9017]

Thank you be transparent with your work it's a nice way for all of us hobbiest to learn. I also applied Thymol the same way this year and at first I thought I had really hurt my queen's because of their laying pattern, but they all bounced back and are in full swing.

[@jet1582]

How do you measure it? Is the thymol an essential oil?

[@texasfriendlybeekeepers8210]

as always so well done. You make things easy to follow....thanks Kamon!

[@lindseyhomesteadfarm2653]

That is awesome results. Great job guys:

[@AppalachianHivery]

Beautiful results! I look forward to seeing the information from the control group!

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Looking forward to your next OA results video Kamon. We tried tests of the monster fall doses . It didn't go well. Zero mites. But our guess was that the queen stopped laying our much needed winter bees. 80% spring dead outs. Not pretty.

[@philjanikjr9805]

Looking forward to the results of the mega oxalic dose results. Curious to see how my treatments compare. HBM

[@dcsblessedbees]

I have seen some keeper mention their queens bounce back real good and lay hard after a thymol treatment.

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Bob Binnie mentioned they come back seemingly refreshed and ready to go. Great information DC.

[@rebeccahoffman5914]

As a new bee keeper this information is appreciated. The time and effort that is given to help others out is heartwarming. Can this treatment be considered of results for most colonies with percentages ? I am trying to consider treatments for next year .This year I used formic and it left me a little nervous.

[@kamonreynolds]

In our research this year we have 12 colonies going thru the same treatment protocol. We will be releasing that in October. I hope the effectiveness for the other 12 with the same treatment, treatment schedule and mite load percentage will also reflect a good mite reduction. Thymol is my preferred treatment since it is more natural than some and more gentle than formic. I would not want to have percentages higher than 2% though. Even if thymol will kill the mites if viruses have taken hold we do not have a product to kill viruses yet.

[@rebeccahoffman5914]

@@kamonreynolds I will be looking forward to the research.Thank you

[@beemandjl]

That is not Golden Rod. I think it is Hyleanthis

[@kamonreynolds]

There is both which I articulated in the video though I called it Wingstem and Goldenrod

[@beemandjl]

@@kamonreynolds Sorry I need new batteries for my hearing aids. My bad.

[@imperiodomel]

Ola como vc faz pra união dos enxame

[@joeybrannon8626]

Hello Kamon, I know you are very busy now but if you could advise it would help. I am a first year keeper that only started with one hive. I have a four year old son that has a tracheostomy and spent the first two and a half years on a ventilator and has already had 6 surgeries. Then covid came and we have been limiting where we go until his doctors fell a little more confident. Needless to say I haven't gone to my local club but was able to get my bees from a local "master Beekeeper" who has since stopped replying to my texts.My problem is 42 days ago I did a mite check doing an alcohol wash and saw a 3% infestation. I have a double deep setup and put 4 apivar strips in 2 per box and did 5 rounds of approx 3g of OAV 6 days apart. I was hoping this would knock the mites back before the temps started getting too low. Today was the end of the apivar treatment and I did another wash this time trying dawn soap and came back with a 5% infestation. I have seen some people do a side by side with dawn, and alcohol and the dawn gave a higher count. I don't know if this is the case but I still have a higher mite load. I need to try and get this down so your opinion would be greatly appreciated! My temps are between the 40-80 range for the foreseeable future. Like I said I have a double deep setup with about 2 frames of brood and the rest but 2 mixed with brood and stores. Thank You Joey

[@rehmangusandapiary9024]

Great job Kamon and thymol! The new mite wash container appears to have the internal basket protrude to the bottom. Do you view this as a negative?

[@kamonreynolds]

It seems to stack up well for me. Both the veto pharma yellow one and this new one work similarly I just like the seal on my blue one

[@Vlabar]

I sometimes wonder if we are breeding weaker bees through modern beekeeping practices.

[@kamonreynolds]

Our bees are resistant to chalkbrood, efb, tracheal, Nosema ceranae, and ceranae apis, and then deal with SHB, new strains of viruses, and two types of varroa mites. I think they are doing very well for all the new pressures they have encountered in the last few decades

[@alfredkibunja1253]

Appreciated

[@nancynolton6079]

I agree goldenrod smells like butterscotch with a yeasty touch.

[@cbbees1468]

"The only good Varroa Mite is a dead one." - If John Wayne was a beekeeper

[@kamonreynolds]

YES!

[@accessthruchrist4843]

Oh that's awesome. Thymol comes from Thyme right? Is what you used in the description? God bless

[@thomassantorelli787]

I'm on Long Island, NY. I use Oxalic acid vapor applied with Oxalica pro every 4 days for a month and no mites after overwinter. No alcohol washes, sugar shakes-leave them alone!

[@jtlearn1]

When do you find time to pump those triceps?

[@kamonreynolds]

Really is just bee work and genetics I guess

[@mikehill9888]

Oxalic acid is also in Rhubarb leaves. Sugar beets leaves were cooked and fed to cows in the early 1900s. For safety in the cattle if you didn't cook the feed mash, the animals would get sick

[@beemandjl]

Helianthis

[@Tyler-nj5dr]

Good morning.

[@jacquiejenkins4566]

What ever happened with the long hive? Is it still going?

[@timjones6637]

What about hive beetle? Virginia is loading.

[@brucesnavely3603]

Kamon where did you get your box you shake the bees into? Good video. Thank you!

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Bruce... Washing Up Bowl / Tub in UK... work well ! Plastic more brittle these days. So buy a new one every so often ! Doh. Think the Supermarkets are selling them as loss leaders. Knowing will be be back... 🤭

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Will be, Bee, back ! 🤣

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

Talking oder .. we don't normally get strong smart weed flow but we are in one now.. thought I had AFB out break or something.. honey looks like motor oil.. people think goldenrod stinks not even close to smart weed.. goldenrod smells good to me love that smell like butterscotch

[@emilygriffis8644]

Hey would shop towels work just as good as Swedish sponge oxalic acid slow release

[@Lbfarmsllc]

No

[@emilygriffis8644]

@@Lbfarmsllc thank you