Hi Brian! Thank you for tagging me in this. You can't go wrong with Dr. David Peck, he's the answer man in so many categories. Thank you for sharing, and for continuing to support our community of beekeepers. All the best to all of you! 2 hours and 20 minutes! Dr. Peck is very generous with his time, and we all appreciate that. Wow, Dr. Peck has the best coffee cup I've ever seen! So impressive ;)
Fred, I knew that you would enjoy this chat. Dr peck is truly an invaluable resource. Having him for over 2 hours, wow... And the mug, hahaha. . I saw that.
I learned a lot again. Have to find time to lissen many times to pick up most of this information. I will have a lot in mind for my upcoming beekerping season season.
@@CastleHives you guys rock! Or like my kidz would have said "fett nice"! I am glad I found you in this jungle of youtubers! I enjoy lissening and to mr Peck, I am greatful for your point of view of what a beekeeper is for type of beekeeper! I liked the way you reason! For me it is a very understanding and sensible way of thinking. (Right now I sence I'm really swedish in my english 😉, but I think you native english speakers understand what I try to say) This sharing of knowledge is so important! The youtube community is vital and very important! We need to share to get better at what we love to do. We need new insights. New inventions. Take up old knowledge, look upon it from different angles. Keep up the good work!
varroa mites stay in one cell about 18 days, SHBs can go into every open cell in a colony in that same time span and puncture the 6 surrounding cells from any open cell with her ovapositor.
I’d like to make a small point about beekeepers using unapproved methods. For the large majority, it’s not beekeepers using unapproved miticides. It’s beekeepers going off label and using 2g of OA per box instead of 1g. Or beekeepers using extended release OA. These are things that are approved for specific individuals or universities/labs to test, and beekeepers end up using it themselves as soon as they hear its working. The data was very clear from UGA that 1g of OA per deep was not nearly enough and that 2g worked much better. As soon as beekeepers heard this, they started doing it themselves and most don’t hide it. I am not advocating breaking the law, I just wanted to somewhat rebut the point Dr. Peck was making about beekeepers using illegal methods to treat. It’s not so much that beekeepers are secretly (in the shadows) using unknown treatments or chemicals. I think Dr. Peck is great, easily one of my favorite scientists/researchers in the field, this is not an attack on him.
Jeff, I agree 100%. Beekeepers aren't using treatments that are made up, they are going off-label with dosages not approved. This is great feedback. Dr Peck does a wonderful job and is such a valuable resource for the community.
@Dr Peck and Bruce: in the south anywhere soil is good to grow cotton and fruit SHBs will be a problem, also SHB can reproduce on bird pecked preaches apples pears and any rotting fruit which we have many in the south. Remember I live in Peach Co. Georgia, cotton and peaches all around me.
Hello... I just listened to Randy Oliver talk on experimenting with slow release formic pro. It was in a podcast... August 2022 HCBA meeting summertime varroa treatment. Time stamp... 46:27. I found it interesting.
Dr. David Peck said Varroa Mites jumped from a flower to a honey bee. Is a more likely way for Varroa Mites to spread from hive to hive is when beekeepers open feed sugar water or pollen substitute? Isn't open feeding the best way to make sure all hives within 5 miles have the same diseases and more varroa mites? I burned 3 AFB hives in 2023, maybe because neighbors open fed everyone's bees within 5 miles.
I have a Apairy with hives and a commercial beekeeper comes and places few hundred hives then they start to harass mine thru robbing they make em weak increase my mite count your commercial beekeeper after killing mine you get what you deserve I don’t treat
@@CastleHives I’m not blaming anyone honeybees are just insects nor angry just putting it out their I don’t treat with chemicals my winter are tough and brood breaks
Hi Brian! Thank you for tagging me in this. You can't go wrong with Dr. David Peck, he's the answer man in so many categories. Thank you for sharing, and for continuing to support our community of beekeepers. All the best to all of you! 2 hours and 20 minutes! Dr. Peck is very generous with his time, and we all appreciate that. Wow, Dr. Peck has the best coffee cup I've ever seen! So impressive ;)
Fred, I knew that you would enjoy this chat. Dr peck is truly an invaluable resource. Having him for over 2 hours, wow... And the mug, hahaha. . I saw that.
I learned a lot again. Have to find time to lissen many times to pick up most of this information. I will have a lot in mind for my upcoming beekerping season season.
Chat like this one with Dr Peck are great. The information passed on is great. Thanks for watching.
@@CastleHives you guys rock! Or like my kidz would have said "fett nice"! I am glad I found you in this jungle of youtubers! I enjoy lissening and to mr Peck, I am greatful for your point of view of what a beekeeper is for type of beekeeper! I liked the way you reason! For me it is a very understanding and sensible way of thinking. (Right now I sence I'm really swedish in my english 😉, but I think you native english speakers understand what I try to say)
This sharing of knowledge is so important! The youtube community is vital and very important! We need to share to get better at what we love to do. We need new insights. New inventions. Take up old knowledge, look upon it from different angles. Keep up the good work!
Yasmin, appreciate the kind words. Together we can all grow together.
varroa mites stay in one cell about 18 days, SHBs can go into every open cell in a colony in that same time span and puncture the 6 surrounding cells from any open cell with her ovapositor.
SHB are just brutal.
I’d like to make a small point about beekeepers using unapproved methods. For the large majority, it’s not beekeepers using unapproved miticides. It’s beekeepers going off label and using 2g of OA per box instead of 1g. Or beekeepers using extended release OA. These are things that are approved for specific individuals or universities/labs to test, and beekeepers end up using it themselves as soon as they hear its working. The data was very clear from UGA that 1g of OA per deep was not nearly enough and that 2g worked much better. As soon as beekeepers heard this, they started doing it themselves and most don’t hide it. I am not advocating breaking the law, I just wanted to somewhat rebut the point Dr. Peck was making about beekeepers using illegal methods to treat. It’s not so much that beekeepers are secretly (in the shadows) using unknown treatments or chemicals. I think Dr. Peck is great, easily one of my favorite scientists/researchers in the field, this is not an attack on him.
Jeff, I agree 100%. Beekeepers aren't using treatments that are made up, they are going off-label with dosages not approved. This is great feedback. Dr Peck does a wonderful job and is such a valuable resource for the community.
Great topics and insight. There are always more questions to be answered. Thanks for sharing!
So many questions remain unanswered. Thank you for watching.
It was a great Live to night guys, thank you and thank you Dr. Peck.👍
What an amazing chat. Dr Peck is such a resource. Thanks DC. .
@Dr Peck and Bruce: in the south anywhere soil is good to grow cotton and fruit SHBs will be a problem, also SHB can reproduce on bird pecked preaches apples pears and any rotting fruit which we have many in the south. Remember I live in Peach Co. Georgia, cotton and peaches all around me.
I guess I'm lucky that in NE Ohio I really don't have that bad of a SHB problem.
Hello...
I just listened to Randy Oliver talk on experimenting with slow release formic pro.
It was in a podcast...
August 2022 HCBA meeting summertime varroa treatment.
Time stamp... 46:27.
I found it interesting.
Thank you for that. I will check that out.
What we need is varroa traps baited with some 10 times stronger e beta ocimene pheromones that the bees can't get into
That would be great. .
Dr. David Peck said Varroa Mites jumped from a flower to a honey bee. Is a more likely way for Varroa Mites to spread from hive to hive is when beekeepers open feed sugar water or pollen substitute? Isn't open feeding the best way to make sure all hives within 5 miles have the same diseases and more varroa mites? I burned 3 AFB hives in 2023, maybe because neighbors open fed everyone's bees within 5 miles.
I do not open feed, maybe lucky I do not. Where are you located that you had AFB?
@@CastleHives I have two apiaries in backyards with four hives in each one, inside Omaha, Nebraska.
Great live guys! Glad y’all got Dr peck on! Take care
Thanks Grayson.
No Jab for my honeybees... Don't make me start up a trucker convoy protest. Lol
HAHAHA. . . Yeah. . Not sure I would do that either.
I have a Apairy with hives and a commercial beekeeper comes and places few hundred hives then they start to harass mine thru robbing they make em weak increase my mite count your commercial beekeeper after killing mine you get what you deserve I don’t treat
Oh man, that's horrible. Does the commercial person compensate any?
@@CastleHives no but I heard that it wasn’t profitable for him to bring them up here.I will be on alert this coming season
@@beefuzzz8403 Man that stinks. Hopefully this next season your Apiary isn't bothered.
@@CastleHives I’m not blaming anyone honeybees are just insects nor angry just putting it out their I don’t treat with chemicals my winter are tough and brood breaks
If mite bomb is misleading, how about Mite farm or mite factories. To me that sound more accurate.
I kinda like Mite Factory. Mite Farm sounds to nice to me.