Phil, this video made my day. Greatly appreciate you sharing your experience with Formic acid. I use Formic Pro (and have used the older versions). Use to put it on in August but have moved to late May/early June treatments. I liked the comments on humidity, amount of honey in hives, placing gel packs at the back away from the centre of brood and strategy with lids. Thanks
I quit using Formic Pro a couple of years ago. Lost too many queens, bees and brood. I have a theory that the reason Formic knocks back the mites is because so much brood is killed. That’s my opinion from my use and observations.
This video gives me a little more courage to try formic than someone else's video recently uploaded. I put apivar in broodless, two weeks before pollen patties in the spring and two rounds of oxalic acid in the fall when broodless. All forms of treatments work best broodless even formic. The temperature on the vaporizer is 160⁰C, because OA is easily destroyed by heat. I don't see mites, so I won't need formic just yet. Waiting for Part 2, percentage of queen loss and brood condition, thanks.
The only Formic product I'll be interested in is when Randy gets his over time perfected. Formic is to harsh on the bees for me to want to use it, getting under the caps is not that big of a deal to me. Why do I care if I get under the caps if I kill bees with the treatments, I have a short season I can't afford killing bees by choice. Thanks for sharing your time with us Phil, Blessed Days...
I started using the "4x7 meat pads and 65% liquid formic acid" this year, much cheaper than formic pro. I'm curious what downsides you had with that method?
@@nikoutzas6155 you preferably need an open bottom screened bottom board with the tray to do it and need to respect the dosage according the temperature and deeps you have.
I thought it was the bees chewing some of the reflectix, which didn’t seem right. Makes more sense that the Formic off gasses are responsible for it. Thanks
Phil, this video made my day. Greatly appreciate you sharing your experience with Formic acid. I use Formic Pro (and have used the older versions). Use to put it on in August but have moved to late May/early June treatments. I liked the comments on humidity, amount of honey in hives, placing gel packs at the back away from the centre of brood and strategy with lids. Thanks
I quit using Formic Pro a couple of years ago. Lost too many queens, bees and brood. I have a theory that the reason Formic knocks back the mites is because so much brood is killed. That’s my opinion from my use and observations.
Thanks Phil. I'm impressed with your tweaks with formic usage. Will look forward to Part II. Hope our weather pattern becomes a bit drier.
This video gives me a little more courage to try formic than someone else's video recently uploaded. I put apivar in broodless, two weeks before pollen patties in the spring and two rounds of oxalic acid in the fall when broodless. All forms of treatments work best broodless even formic. The temperature on the vaporizer is 160⁰C, because OA is easily destroyed by heat. I don't see mites, so I won't need formic just yet. Waiting for Part 2, percentage of queen loss and brood condition, thanks.
I like your approach to this. I have lost a few queens and think this may help. And I may offset the boxes a small bit
The only Formic product I'll be interested in is when Randy gets his over time perfected.
Formic is to harsh on the bees for me to want to use it, getting under the caps is not that big of a deal to me.
Why do I care if I get under the caps if I kill bees with the treatments, I have a short season I can't afford killing bees by choice. Thanks for sharing your time with us Phil, Blessed Days...
I started using the "4x7 meat pads and 65% liquid formic acid" this year, much cheaper than formic pro. I'm curious what downsides you had with that method?
I wanted something that would release more slowly. Not sure I really got that.
What do you think about the 65% flash treatments ?
That’s gonna depend on the exact methodology used.
How can formic acid flash treatment be done?
@@nikoutzas6155 you preferably need an open bottom screened bottom board with the tray to do it and need to respect the dosage according the temperature and deeps you have.
I thought it was the bees chewing some of the reflectix, which didn’t seem right. Makes more sense that the Formic off gasses are responsible for it. Thanks
I’m gonna use that next time someone tells me to wear gloves! lol I wanna keep my callous hands
Please do!
Don't forget to put candles in the church, for the bee mothers.