Inspecting Our Hives After a Small Hive Beetle Infestation | Tips on the Products We Used
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025
- After battling a small hive beetle infestation, it’s time to check on our hives and see how the bees are recovering. In this video, we’ll inspect the colonies, assess the damage, and share the products we used to help our bees fight back against these invasive pests. From traps to hive management techniques, we’ll cover everything that’s helped us turn the tide in this fight.
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The Bye-Bye Beetle works well in inexpensive Beetle Barns and Really well in their own Power B2B traps. The Power B2B traps are translucent so you can see through the plastic to check the bait. The slots are larger as well, so I think the beetles can smell the bait more from them. The bait gets consumed from either, but at a higher rate from the Power B2B traps. Also, they're not really traps. They're housing for the bait that give the beetles access while keeping the bees safe. We did purchase these and I plan on buying more!!!
neighbors always have to mow when your shooting video. I bought the bye bye beetle traps at NAHBE hope to loading it soon, great results for you
Had to stop and wait for them to finish with the leaf blower.
Jealous of the NAHBE trip!
The Bye Bye Beetle did work well for us, but we had to remove any extra room they had to hide in.
I found years ago that too large a hive into winter causes beetle explosions. I won't go more than two deeps to overwinter because of them.
I saw your beetle bait and read the ingredients. All it is, is boric acid and the bait which I'm assuming is a pollen patty type product. I helped my state in a hive beetle count when they came here. The traps were hung in trees and the beetles would be trapped to get counted.
Anymore they are all over the place and can get out of control if your bees can't monitor the hive because it's too big.
Hi Bob. Too much room was definitely "one" of my mistakes. What state are you located in? I'm assuming down south.?.
Can you share what kind of traps you used to get counts with? I've been looking / experimenting with traps away from the hives to hopefully be a bigger draw than the hives themselves.
@@aPlaceintheHive Actually I'm in Pennsylvania. The traps were provided by the state in the study. They were made out of PVC piping and #8 mesh.
The bait (don't know what) looked like a pollen patty and was very sweet smelling.
Every week I would collect everything in that section of the trap and send it in to the state for counting. Then replace the bait.
That's about all there was to it.
The trap was place several hundred yards for my hives. Hung from a tree.
Now if you want to try something. I found out years ago that a five gallon bucket with holes just big enough for SHB to get through. Put sugar water in it and leave it in the shade. As it ferments beetles are drawn to it. They go inside and drown. I accidentally left a bucket of sugar water out on the farm and forgot about it. Kids in the neighborhood decided to make it a target with their BB guns and put holes in it. When I finally got around to getting to the syrup it fermented. I opened it up to pour it out and throw the pale, I noticed a layer of dead beetles in the liquid. Just a thought for you to play with this summer.
That is one awesome accident!!! I will give it a try along with several others to see what works best.
@ A good video to see if your results are the same as mine
Why not order another queen, or take a frame of eggs from other hive to let them requeen.
We purchased these two as late summer nucs to replace the colonies we had lost. At the time of the video, it's late September. The bees would definitely try to make a queen, but she has no time to develop, harden off, get mated and start egg laying. Without being able to build up a big enough volume to cluster and stay warm in winter, they would freeze. Thoughts are better to have one strong colony than one questionable and one sure loss.
Thanks for the question!