Randy Oliver: Varroa Management, Concepts and Practice

[@CharlotteAikens-k4k]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing your great research and advice.

[@framcesmoore]

Thanks for sharing this, Randy is great, I wish the sound would had been better. we missed out on a lot when the sound went out.

[@mapache_del_sur]

I have noticed in Central Texas, the colonies that have had the screened bottom boards with the corrugated plastic completely removed for the heat, have a lower mite load than hives with a solid bottom board. But I also don’t have the experience of many thousands of hives, my data pool is much lower. More like hundreds, not thousands of hives.

[@jasonseaward8506]

Randy Oliver is definitely a rockstar of the beekeeping world. I just don't like the lags in the audio. I feel like I'm missing some key PC's of information. Another question I have is why don't we test drones for mites at all times, or at least whenever they are available? Or maybe we should be taking any number we get from a regular wash and multiply it by 7 since they are on the drones more frequently by 7x

[@gene-sloca]

Thank you for this video. Appreciate it.

[@lynnerousseau9676]

Great presentation 🎉

[@trevormorris2328]

Agreed 👍

[@slavkochepasov8134]

45:41 what ration of the Dawn Ultra detergent to the water is used for mite count test? Is it same as "Dawn Ultra Dishwashing Liquid, Dish Soap"?

[@slavkochepasov8134]

47:17 "Dawn solution" = 1 tbsp / half gallon of water

[@davidpollock7275]

Whats the ratio of Dawn to Water when diluting the detergent wash? Metric & Imperial measurements please :)

[@bojanpavlovic880]

Hi everyone. What would be European analogue to Dawn detergent? We don't have it here in Europe 😔.

[@gene-sloca]

Freaking awesome video

[@michaelhall7921]

A young beekeeper on You Tube says that 'you' meaning anyone who has Varroa mite cannot eradicate them only control them which I find an astonishing statement because after three years I do not find any mites now as of spring 2024. I followed your methods and dangled the adsorbent stips 1 to 1 ox acid and food grade glycerine between 4 frames per hive for months. This did not seem to bother the bees one iota. All the three hives were busting at the seems and one swarmed. I caught that swarm and gave it a new Buckfast queen. This hive is now thriving after 10 days. The young lady might be doing something wrong because she is still persisting with vaporisation with O A.... I found that the fumigation with OA was not efficient due to killing hundreds of mites in one particular hive with the ER method = strips...... Why I wonder is there lame excuses publicised with the method that works even with supers on? best wishes to you in your excellent research regarding the so called illegal strips. I found they got me free of the worry of all the bloody lot of bees dying. As I said they are thriving .

[@sergepajcin1255]

kirk webster doing free treatment for 30 years oliver ptomotes now

[@rafadiezdom]

Randy, this hive has been living here without being treated against varroa and without being fed for at least, as far as we know, 29 years. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH7CkpqhrMqFo6M. During the whole bee lining, I have not seen a single varroa in the thousands of bees I have marked during a week to find it.

[@charleyfrancis8671]

That poor bee... Damn I hate the mites.

[@Swarmstead]

Same thing over and over.

[@johnnyleach7152]

Hey randy, I'm a small commercial queen breeder, I've experimented with try to breed vsh bees from a company in texas. No luck in reproducing bees that effectively handle mites. Do you know where I can find starter colonies or queens to start with.