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I've never used Apistan or it's cousin Mavrik in my hives, but everybody was using it in the 1990s when I was a kid until it quit working. Amitraz being so heavily overused now and losing its edge makes me wonder about putting fluvalinate in the rotation. I use all the organic stuff too but about once a year in the late summer, you really need a good treatment with a uniform knockout.

I like this method, it breaks all the rules and saves all the time. Looks like you can get a bunch done in half a day. What do you normally expect to get for a queen take percentage on the checkbacks? Royal suppository 👍👍

HA PHIL THIS IS WHAT I UNDERSTAND U REMOVE HONEY PUT EMPTY BACK.. QUEEN EXCLUDERS ARE ADDED U GO BACK IN A DAY OR 2 REMOVE THE SEC AND ADD A MATED QUEEN. U PUT THE SPLIT IN THE SAME YARD DONT THE FIELD BEES GO BACK TO THE MOTHER HIVE ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR VEDIOS. HAVE A BLESSED DAY

If they make it they will likely be powerhouses in the Spring.

I have some late queen replacements (superceedure) just coming on line. Things seem to be pushed later this summer, who knows, maybe we will get the needed weather into October

Oxalic would probably do a good job in those with no capped brood.

Thanks for update.

Good luck

Very interesting Phil. You sure are pushing things to the limit. What is the mite treatment you're applying there? Haven't seen these strips before. I decided to do formic treatment this fall with them meat pads and later just before they go inside a huff of oxalic.

The late splits will need a good warm fall to build up to be a box of bees. With your short seasons timing is everything. Have a good day Phil.

Curious if you have ended up using it and how you would review it

I love your experiments! It is Very interesting! As a newer Beekeeper, I was wondering about that.👍 No mistake, the mites may have lost their resistance because it is no longer used . Good stuff!

Awesome…congrats!

It’s a good feeling. Enjoy your weekend.

Congratulations👍

Congratulations 🎉

Thank you very much that you support Ukrainian

Good stuff, getting the work done Congratulations on the harvet. Thanks for sharing Phil, Blessed Days...

Hola colega muy bueno 🐝🐝🐝🐝👏👏👏👏🇦🇷

What did you put in? Thymovar?

Good harvest for the Honey. Hope for a good season 😊

We've done some testing on Apistan here in Ontario. Basically we've found if Apistan wasn't used used in an operation for roughly 5 years you could get fairly good efficacy with it again.

Very impressive results, I wonder if that combined with an Oxalic treatment could help wipe out any resistant mites? I would worry that resistance would be found randomly in only certain colonies or locations. I definitely did not get as good a result as that with apivar this spring

Not worried about apistan contaiminating the comb?

Phil, what is your queen acceptance on the take away hives? I would think very good. So if you are doing 200 spits here this fall and you I'm sure did a bunch this spring - what number of new hives do you try to achieve each year when staying at your current hive numbers? If you have a 1,000 hives and 10% go queenless in the summer and in the winter you lose 20% you would need 300 to stay even. It seems when you are a commercial beekeeper you need to make a heck of a lot of splits.

It will work ❤

Seems like the bees are brooding nicely right now, I think those splits will brood nicely

As you said there was hardly any brood. So make sense the treatment worked very good. Try a colony with 6 frames of brood. Greettings from 🇨🇿

Thoughts on this idea. Late season when you have a honey tower, put a second queen excluder on the top, put a brood box over it and a caged mated queen. Wait for a week or so than walk away with the box of bees and queen.

Good information thank you.

Bee careful hun take lots of breaks and drink plenty of fluids.

2 questions. 1. Did you bring any brood up from the parent colony? and 2. Where did you get the queens? My bet depends on your answer to question 1. If those child hives dont have young bees i predict too many bees will fly back to the parent. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you moved the parent. Very risky though- the returning foragers might kill that new queen.

Yea you might want to rewatch your video. Numbers you wrote down were incorrect to what you initially said. 36 with 175 bees was the first.

Phil, you have heat exhaustion in this video. Your face is fire red, fumbling, and can't add 27+9, measured the bees at 175, then called it 250. Take a break, and drink lots of water. It's serious stuff heat exhaustion, I get it easily. The veil adds 8⁰C to the internal temperature inside the veil. It's easy to cook your brain when it's 35⁰ outside.

Your knowledge is by far better than 99.9% of the beekeepers on RUclips. Pls keep up the good work. Although this knowledge is difficult for casual backyard beekeepers to understand. They usually don't have the luxury of multiple yards to move boxes. Splitting hives like this within the same yard will for sure fail.

Hi, I’ve heard that bees won’t use anything that’s fallen down on to the bottom board, have you observed this? Is it different on a brand new bottom board like you’re using here? Thank you for sharing your experiment 👍

How many weeks of the season do you have left. Or is that not a key factor.

how does the plywood hold up - do you paint it ?

Synergies with fluvallnate are quite harmful to the bees and it holds residue for a very very long time. I wish we had more options

Im glad to see you back, Phil. I’m curious what your current treatment regimen is.

You seemed busier than usual, Phil. You made less videos than last year ! Thanks for uploading.

This is very interesting. Thanks 👍.

What do you do if you have to much canola in the brood chamber?

Thanks for sharing Phil. Blessed Days...

Curious if you have any regrets with having a bit of texture. We did a coating with a bit of texture to be less slippery, but it definitely makes cleaning a little harder.

Excusez moi Pouvez vous donner le résultats de vos tests par écrit Merci

Did you find any of the treatments wintered better than others?

Hey, could you record how the forks pick up the box? Is there any gap between the picking up paws or does it fit close to the box?

Hello would you know how much the AJ100H crane would cost i realzie you have the 2008 model if you know that qould be appreciated thanks.

Excellent video 👍. Happy harvest 🐝🌻