Ben
Apivar is great. Amitraz is in its sunset so enjoy it while you can. Formic pads are same price as apivar. Apivar works.
Seems like my point is missed.
All im trying to say is the more you know mites the more effective your treatments will be. Stealth ninja treating is better than blind bee club rhetoric.
Binnie is probably the best southern beekeeper I ever saw on utube.
I can't argue with anything he says nor do I keep bees in the south.
I noticed you didn't do your homework yet. Lol
Mites run on smell no eyes
Broid phermone draws them in on day 8.5.
Firmic burns their nose so no reproduction because they can't find larval cells. Can create change in brood comb ph tipping the biome to more virus load. Formic 2 does not seem to work on capped broid as well as formic 1. I like hot treatment best as it's over in one day.
Oxalic is absorbed through the mites feet and kills em. Easy on bees easy on mites.
Inexpensive, and now with smoke canons fast.
Amitraz works on nervous system. Also sterilizes drones.
I don't mention other treatments as they are ineffective.
Brood breaks kill 1 percent of mites. Delays build up but that's it.
Virus are given to mites from bees and reinfected back. If you have high virus loads requeen your apiary with upgraded stock. Virus also transmitted in vitro via drones to queen to eggs. Mites to queen, food to queens etc.
Most important thing is to get yards under control and keep mite levels low all year.
Less is more. Mites can ramp up tremendously when they feel threatened by excessive treatments. You will see mites like Mel explains in ots. We tried to sterilize hives from mites for a study. We used oxalic then formic then taufluvalinate with amitraz. We were getting 8 plus mites per cell in the brood.Btw not my idea just part of a drifting test we did for a company. If you try to kill all your mites you will probably damage your hive as well. Of the 6 that got that treatment protocol 2 lived to spring 1 died in June. I had no mites either lol.
2 per hundred in June will be 8 per hundred in August.
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