Wax moths starting in my hive. What do I do?

[@pcdubya]

Good pointers man, since those pests seem to be the worst problems. Wiped out my first 2 hives when I tried beekeeping a few years ago. Trying it again a little differently with a guy helping me. Thanks

[@jencoleman9726]

Wish I could have seen this video before the wax moth took over. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikeschickensandgarden3370]

I appreciate your videos. Hoping to have bees this spring I have been researching them to death for the last year. Also joining my local bee club soon

[@dfishman76]

Let me know if you get some

[@mauriceupton1474]

Probably a weak hive, I would combine them with a stronger hive or feed them some sugar water. When I got wax moth I used pheromone sticky boards that you can get from the supermarket for clothes moths and pantry moths, you can put them close to the hive or try next to really wax moth infected frames. They work well, especially when storing empty hives.

[@smackymcproductions4443]

subscribed. first vid of yours ive come across. nice to have someone so casual and realistic about beekeeping. cheers to your success.

[@aparnaganapati]

Thank you for this video on wax moth control

[@dfishman76]

Thanks for watching

[@zachlutjen4595]

Just did this with 2 hives today, thank you!!!

[@dfishman76]

Thanks for watching

[@fatbackpeanut]

Screened bottom board with a oil pan underneath really helps with invaders

[@smackymcproductions4443]

kept bees 1 season. Never treated for mites, so queen died with 2 workers on each side of her from exposure. Winter pop just got drilled in their womb as far as i can tell. On youtube to find the answer but came across this, and the dead hive I kept in my garage for a year has moths starting august. awesome seeing someone quickly diagnosing a bad queen. first time I've ever seen that, so might save me a lot of hassle next time.

[@Luna-luna909]

Is it just me who finds bees super cute? I am allergic but I still like them!

[@Doxymeister]

LOL, nope, there's more of us out here. I love them, find them fascinating--but a sting or two will put me in the hospital in short order. Love watching these videos though.

[@angiehoodenpyle7665]

Thanks for this video, we just found wax moths have taken over super. Cut to single box for the bee's to be able to defend. :)

[@KenMurrayvideos]

I really appreciated your video and learnt quite a bit. Could you also have put a frame of healthy brood from a very active hive in your less efficient queen brood hive ...so as to increase the number of worker bees, and to stimulate the lazy queen to increase her egg laying?

[@TheLaughterFarm]

Thats what I would have done, and re queened

[@dfishman76]

Yes you could have

[@alexk6745]

I added another 10 full frame box on top of broodbox. I see some frames do not have enough bees to defend. I think I should not add that many untill behive is strong enough. I will take out tomorrow extra ones. BTW, once I noticed larva I moved few frames up above excluder and replaced those with frames with foundation. in 14 days on 2 frames there was only honey left and bee bread so I took those into freezer for 2 days. Then later did nother coupdl of frames. Tomorrow hopefully I will take 3 more. Thanks for your vid. I now know that when I will be doing splits I will start with adding a not more than 1 frame with foundation. Actually I think I will not be adding frame with foundation at all. Just ready build combs have not made decision if I will be making 3 or 4 frame nucs for start. Afraid to go with 3 frames but I really wanna expand quicker my single hive to 4 hives.

[@dfishman76]

Only issue with not adding all the frames is the bees could build off the top cover and not the frames you have in the hive. Not sure where you located but it’s kind of late to be adding another hive body if you’re in the US unless you way way down south.

[@alexk6745]

@@dfishman76 Yes, I'm in Australia we have spring here. I have in the top box only 7 frames as even those 7 frames not fully built. I'm waiting they build comb.

[@butterfly101664]

mix 4 parts salt and 4 parts vinegar then spray under and around hives on ground to deter hive beetles from completing their life cycle.

[@butterfly101664]

I was having a brain fog. Lol

[@TheMslizzygirl]

Thank you for this video! 🐝

[@dfishman76]

TheMslizzygirl thanks for watching

[@baddestbees5924]

Man they ruined over 90 frames here last summer.You leave equipment out 1 night,they lay eggs.Its ALL out war on them this summer, I checked 3 deep hive other day,four of them under piece of metal I had as a roof.If u take any frames off, straight to freezer. I have one only for equipment too, I need another,sounds like you have had experience with em too to have equipment freezer ..

[@enricolovadina3560]

Very good video ,im beekeping in Italy .

[@dfishman76]

Thank you for watching

[@BobSell]

Great video! A couple of questions: How did you start this hive? Package, nuc? Looks like they are just getting started in one box. Would it have helped to feed them to make them stronger? Would feeding encourage the queen to lay more or a better pattern? Thanks again!

[@dfishman76]

+Bob Sell I want to say these are from a swarm last year not 100% on that. You can feed them it will help them draw comb out faster and give them something to store for food for later. You can also give them pollen substitute. These two things will help to make the colony stronger. As far as making the queen lay better or improve her laying patter that's completely up to the queen.

[@BobSell]

Thanks for the quick reply. Nice channel! Keep up the the good work! Cheers.

[@dfishman76]

+Bob Sell hope it helps

[@628DirtRooster]

It's all under control. :)

[@dfishman76]

That hive ended up dying out. It's in an up and coming video

[@mgran358]

Thanks for video. I found a wax moth larvae in a nuc I bought. I squashed it. Should I be worried. Nuc was transfer to new hive boxcwith five new frames to accompany the ones I bought.

[@dfishman76]

If it where me I would leave it in the NUC and let them get their numbers up. If you put them in a bigger hive they can decent the problem could get worst

[@TheGoodHeart1000]

I read that tge queen lays eggs in proportion to her hive size. Add bees, she will pick up the slack.

[@dianeiannarino2298]

We have wax moth and yellow jackets in a hive box. There is some damage to all the frames, some more than ever. Do we need to get rid of them. Do we also need to get rid of the boxes?

[@dfishman76]

Sounds like you need to reduce the hive down to a smaller size. Something they can defend. As far as the frames with damage. Freeze them and they will be ok. The boxes will be ok to use again and again

[@Tj-ot4jp]

Iv'e heard that sometimes a slow queen will start laying better if you feed them, as they assume the nectar flow has started.

[@dfishman76]

They do slow down during the year at times

[@bwilhelm4214]

the spotty brood could be American Foulbrood.

[@dfguko]

lol bought now some honey in the grocery now after watching in row the 5th or 6th video from you dude.

[@dfishman76]

+dfguko lol hope it was good honey

[@Haffy1952]

Just curious as to how long you have been beekeeping and if you ever used a jacket or veil when you first started out and when you decided to not use protective equipment. I really like your videos and info and am a newbie who will be starting with a couple of top bar homemade hives next spring, thanks Haffy

[@dfishman76]

This is my first honey bee experience that I videoed kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIW4nYeInNiJfMk I have never really used any protection with working with my bees but I always have it close by incase I need it. Well most of the time. I am going on 5 years of beekeeping. I have read a lot watched a lot of videos and took a few classes on honey bees.

[@GuyLangevin]

Hey, great video's on Wax moths. I did an inspection on my hives yesterday, I found wax moth's and larvae at the bottom of the hive, nothing in the hive. How do I prevent them from travelling up into the comb? I cleaned it all out but they will be back. Any advice?

[@dfishman76]

+Guy Langevin if you can clean it out and reduce the size of the hive you will be better off. If the wax moths got stated in the hive chances are the hive is weak. Reducing the size will help them fend them off

[@GuyLangevin]

Thank you for the advice, I did just that yesterday. I tore off a super as it didn't appear to getting filled. Great video's

[@dfishman76]

+Guy Langevin thank you. Hope the hive does good for you

[@GuyLangevin]

Dfishman76, They should be fine, I caught it early and no larvae in the comb.

[@GuyLangevin]

Hey, just checking in with you, thanks for the advice, I did an inspection today and removed the upper supers. Dropped it all down to two supers. Combs in all 10 hives are perfect no worms. They were just at the bottom, I treated them with some hot flame.

[@GS-st9ns]

Is there a reason why that many bees can't destroy the wax moth Invaders? They destroy other things. I admire your patience and explanation of things, but can you answer that for me please thank you

[@dfishman76]

If your having issues with wax moths you need to reduce the size of the hive. The bees have more space than they can defend

[@GS-st9ns]

@@dfishman76 thank you. I'm not a beekeeper but it just seemed like a logical question or at least a logical thing to explain while videotaping

[@firstube]

Man if I was doing that they would swarm me and kill me lmao

[@rcpd33]

Bees are not really agressive you could likely lick the hive and not get stung

[@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife]

@@rcpd33 i got two swarms i have found in a stack of old hives, attempted the first one, a video on my channel. move went ok into new cleaned hive.... checked them 2 weeks later and a lot of the comb was destroyed by wax moth, killed two and put back will go again maybe tomorrow and make a short video. new Video is mainly because i think it is just worker or drone bees??............ small colony and never see pollen on the bees and not found a queen. hive next door in a separate stack of hives with what i think is a separate swarm is larger, more active and more comb, pollen on bees etc. i lifted lid and looked few weeks back no issues, smoked lightly when found wax moth in other hive opened it a tiny bit and got two nasty stings to my hand immediately, was extra careful to be gentle too............. was about 10 am when i got stung if that might make a difference and super hot here right now.

[@jrbaggott]

How long should I freeze the frames to kill the eggs

[@dfishman76]

jim baggott 24-48 hours should be enough

[@Vbluevital]

Freeze the frames and box for three or for days to kill was mouths.

[@ericmacias3327]

If you have a bunch of empty boxes how do you prevent moth from getting in?

[@dfishman76]

Have not got that figured out. I have lots of empty boxes with lots of damage

[@Trfggdeggh]

Probably block the entrance

[@MrJaman0083]

Chickens is the right answer!

[@kiragufrankjoram4060]

Did the bees stop stinging

[@dfishman76]

They can only sting you one time and they die

[@jyotipradhan9587]

Thanks dear I'll also go to do the same ❤

[@thuffman44]

Great video ~~ Thumbs up!

[@dfishman76]

Thank you Tim

[@amathonn]

Good videos, bud.

[@dfishman76]

Thank you

[@TimeToPrep]

Another good informative video, would the hive have made it if you re-queened it or let them do it if you got rid of her?

[@dfishman76]

+TimeToPrep it should of made it but I did not have an extra queen available

[@Beevenom101]

Why no reducer? Since it’s weak hive and a single box help the bees and put a reducer also will help the other hive next to it not robbing it

[@Gord1812]

How do you manage without any protective clothing?

[@dfishman76]

Slow and easy. Plus good bees

[@garylusso6384]

Should have put into a NUC and reduced the opening and open feed the bees.

[@emmanuelbutmankiewicz5342]

I just installed my two nucs on Tuesday and when I checked my flow hive bottom drawer there were little black pellets of poop the thickness of pencil lead. I posted on Facebook and some suggested wax moth larva , others said cockroach, and others said earwig. I wasn't planning on doing my first hive inspection untill Sunday when its supposed to be warm. Is it possible for a fresh nuc to have wax moth larva? I used brand new black heavy dipped acorn on the sides of my 5 nuc frames. Everything i have read about wax moths seems to deal with stored equipment and or dying or dead hives. Thoughts?

[@dfishman76]

I would have to see the pictures. Wax moths are normally only an issue in a weak hive. As far as the other stuff I am not sure. Never heard of earwig.

[@emmanuelbutmankiewicz5342]

@@dfishman76 how can I send you a picture?

[@dfishman76]

[e-mail]

[@KeepingItDutch]

great video, we just had moths take over the whole hive. sucked

[@dfishman76]

+Homesteading With Dutch yes they are a destructive force

[@KeepingItDutch]

yes. question for ya, I have 2 strong first year hives, they have to deeps on them each and the top deeps are both full of honey , would it hurt thr hive it I robbed a couple frames from each? I already took 1 lol

[@dfishman76]

Homesteading With Dutch if they hives are full of honey it would not hurt to take a frame or 2 out and replace them with frames that would give them more room. The thing about honey stores is you never know how much they will need to survive. If you have a warm winter you will need more than if you have a cold winter.

[@KeepingItDutch]

Ok the makes since to me, thanks for the reply

[@Bouzoukiellas]

dfishman76 how is it that the bees need more honey during a warm winter and not a cold one? I thought it was the opposite way around. I live in Houston.

[@unisol2287]

But tell me, did you leave that box empty, or did you put used frames?

[@426superbee4]

Main thing is put a stop to em RITE NOW> Only way to do that is go threw the hives and frames checking for them and there Larva and cocoons that when they start eating wood > Way to check a frame of comb is hold it up to the sun and look for tunnels in wax comb pull em out and smash em If it to bad and can't save the frames and box Transfer the bees into a new hive , AND BURN IT > They done ate it up

[@J.RRandallIllinois]

Could you use formic acid to kill wax moth larvae ?

[@dfishman76]

Not sure if it will kill wax moth larva

[@andrewklahold2880]

I dont make videos but i would like to hance the importance of smoking hives up under the top lid or what you say telescoping lid moth and other insects wait up under there waiting for you to open it as soon as you open it wam there goes a moth right in to the hive so smoke the under side to chase them out

[@chrislittle798]

Moving the frames still leaves a lot of room. Need nuc box would be best wouldn’t it?

[@rickhethcox4694]

Help I got hive 🐝 beetles and wax moths.

[@dfishman76]

Reduce you hive down. Beetles and wax moths are only issues in weak hives. Reduce the hive down to a size they can defend

[@cajunbayouvlogs5308]

You could order another queen?

[@jacksimper5725]

How much money did you make from the advertising of the products ?

[@dfishman76]

Don’t really make anything off honey.

[@jonesy4588]

I can't understand how you people takes those frames out and the bees don't fly off and attack

[@kennylecroy9706]

With that much room i would think they would swam,

[@357lockdown]

Would re-queening help?

[@dfishman76]

+357lockdown it would help the wax moths. Wax moths take over weak hives requeening would wearing the hive even more because the number could drop burning that process

[@benjamindurr692]

How about dropping in a few full frame of brood from a strong colony AND requeen. Plus feed syrup/pollen patty

[@davidwelsh9511]

mr.fishman do you have any bee boxes that are usable you would like to sell me...i only need one or two being this is my first try at it...I'll start in the spring...i watch your videos and am learning from them...

[@dfishman76]

+David Welsh best place to get equipment will be Amazon or Mann Lake. I don't have any extra equipment to sale

[@davidwelsh9511]

Ok thank you....

[@kareno8634]

Is there suppose to have ONE QUEEN for each board, (frame)? WHAT About the moths?? i see nothing!

[@dfishman76]

One queen per hive

[@kareno8634]

@@dfishman76 Thank You! : )

[@Imkerei2024]

You dont use screen botom board

[@dfishman76]

+Max 2017 some I do some I don’t.

[@Imkerei2024]

dfishman76 and where you use whats diferent

[@dfishman76]

+Max 2017 just depends on what I have available when I need a bottom board. Some say it’s best to have screened bottom boards on in the hot summer and solid in the winter time. I just use what I have at the moment. Last bottoms I build where solid just because it was less work and took less time to build

[@Imkerei2024]

dfishman76 i want to ask do you get more wax problem with solid botom?

[@dfishman76]

+Max 2017 can’t really tell the difference.

[@toddschulze7472]

Your hive is weak because you have them in to big of a hive. More them to a 5 frame till they fill it then more them into a 10 frame. This is an old video. Hopefully you've learned that by now.

[@xshanghu]

Yo

[@legendBrett]

reupload?

[@dfishman76]

No I have several videos about wax moths. They are all different

[@bear09871]

Yep, some of it is the same. Double Whammy hive inspection video

[@cheechl9098]

There is nothing you can do about wax taking over a hive

[@dfishman76]

+Chi Chi Cheech normally if the wax moths are taking over a hive it's because the hive is weak and failing. Only thing you can do is reduce the size of the hive (less frames/smaller box) and hope the bees recover and come back

[@zaferyat1005]

BT AGREE WG (Bacillus thuringiensis var. aizawai) Best solution..