Keith from Australia, we are yet to join you , in the varroa fight, so fore told, is fore warned, great program, to watch,thank you kepm & David, cheers Keith 😊
David have you ever looked at the BeeWeavers. We have used them for 5 yrs. We don't split them except in the spring. And they have maybe 1 mite in a mite wash. I think Frederick Dunn has seen the same results in Penn. As have many others.
Have to say Kamon that you do an excellent interview! Great interview! I recommend you take some Dramamine and blood pressure medication before you talk about bureaucracy. Thanks!
Very informative especially for newbies like me. Thank you Kamon and David. I learned alot and will watch this video at least another 20 times to absorb all the information! Thank you for all you do, Laurel yoo!
Been using Swedish sponges with glycerin since August 2022 . Vaporizing 5 times every 5 days.. been alcohol washing my hives since March. Pulling 0 mites in the washes
@@tomahawkmissile241 Varroa is the main reason. With strips alone you have varroa. You still get varroa doing it all, I am trying to keep my applications as needed in my bee yard. Normal vaporizing, 3 weeks after treatment of OA, I would get varroa. Adding the strips to treated hives keep them healthy. This procedure is promising when you have several hundred hives...
@@tomahawkmissile241 a zero count doesn’t mean no varroa. It only means the count is below the minimum pre determined threshold. Mites are still in the hive and reproducing.
I use 4 grams for 2 brood boxes and have treated 9 times so far this fall and am seeing HUGE mite drops each time. Interval all within 6 days. I feel like its nothing like Formic Pro where no more mites drop after 2 weeks. What am I doing wrong?
Great discussion. Got to meet David at the Big Bee Buzz in Tulsa, OK. We disscussed his bear bag, hive hang. 😊 He is a great asset to the bee keeping community.
I think part of the problem is how “greedy” we are. I don’t keep bees for honey. I just think they are cool. Soooo. I don’t manage my hives very well. I’ve treated one time ever. My first / oldest is 4 or 5 years and it was on my property and I hired someone to do a trap out. I let the bees draw their own comb and do their thing. When there is some extra honey I grab it sometimes. They swarm and make tons of drones. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area on some open space and catch swarms on my property or nearby. I notice most of the bee keepers in my local club replace their bees most years (225.00per nuke!). I wonder if our management practices are a major part of the mite problem. I do lose some colonies, but I’m about 6 or 7 consistently without doing anything.
Is it possible that some of the OA leaves a bit of a resin inside of the vaporizer over time so is it possible that a newer unit could be more effective than an older one? Or like you guys said, differences between brands and models.
AND of all the things allowed to be imported from there honey 🍯 should not be one of them especially knowing how they adulterate it . LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY Get your polititions to shut it down
Thanks for the video. OA is not effective if there is brood in the hive. Have you thought of making broodless period during May harvest using queen isolator made out of queen excluder material. Close her up for 21 days and treat. Europeans are doing it very effectively now.
i've used mineral oil and wintergreen oil for years sometime i do use oxcalic acid to if they get to hi couple oxcalic acid treatment and esential oil reg in between works good for me
Cali outlawed OA vapoization.... Do they allow OA treated hives to migrate into Cali for almond pollination? If so are they attempting to guard against a toxic bee, toxic honey or maintaining a toxic hive in their state. If its the honey, do they not allow imported honey?
I will continue to use the LEAST amount of miticide I have to. Raising feral bees and not made my bees much better in their natural defensiveness/pest fighting abilities trying to breed out that to get "nice bees" has already caused us to now inclined to increase dosages of OA ect. I do the mite counts use only as needed.
I'm in Wisconsin and have top bar hives and my bees survived. I used oa vape and hopguard 3 and mite treatments. I used Randy Oliver's hopguard 3 experiment that is online. Every 2 weeks 3 times.
With some insecticides the EPA regulates the applicator device. I hope with this talk of temperatures on the label and percentage lost that the EPA doesn't get into making Vaporizer Companies register there products. Sorry for these late comments but somehow I just got notification from utube.
yeah the bees hate ox acid, divided the hive queen would no go near or over the strips, however i love to hear isreal slow release vaporizer, just a puff every so often, even vaporizes apivar with 90% chemical.
could always let the bees requeen with a split but it best to monitor the mites even with a puff emitor. Even try adding some new genetics like VSH, Minnosota Mite biter, Russian
Almost all companies that sell OA in USA will not provide you a Certificate of Analysis for their OA. This certificate tells the age and the contaminants percentages. Be careful. As of right now the EPA and USDA., 3 grams per brood box may be OKed with my tablets.
thanks kamon n David ,i keep learning about caring for our bees,heres to a bright future
Such a great chat. I learned a lot!
Kamon, have you done a video specifically on your “smart splits?”
Keith from Australia, we are yet to join you , in the varroa fight, so fore told, is fore warned, great program, to watch,thank you kepm & David, cheers Keith 😊
David have you ever looked at the BeeWeavers. We have used them for 5 yrs. We don't split them except in the spring. And they have maybe 1 mite in a mite wash.
I think Frederick Dunn has seen the same results in Penn.
As have many others.
Have to say Kamon that you do an excellent interview! Great interview! I recommend you take some Dramamine and blood pressure medication before you talk about bureaucracy. Thanks!
I think you are right about the meds! Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
Great show! Great information.
Thanks Kamron for having this info. I understand med issues as an RN, but as a beek...risk/benefit needs to be accounted for. Thx David
Thank you so much! We really think alot of David and we appreciate him being as candid as he is for the many hats he wears!
I have no dead bees after treatment and lost no hives . I use oxalic acid + glycerine ( for food use ) + destilled water .
is this legal to recommend seemed like it was a guess by the ingredient list. Was there a check for mites or was it just a guess?
Very informative especially for newbies like me. Thank you Kamon and David. I learned alot and will watch this video at least another 20 times to absorb all the information! Thank you for all you do, Laurel yoo!
Thanks for your nice comment!
Been using Swedish sponges with glycerin since August 2022 . Vaporizing 5 times every 5 days.. been alcohol washing my hives since March. Pulling 0 mites in the washes
why are you treating with 0
@@tomahawkmissile241 Varroa is the main reason. With strips alone you have varroa. You still get varroa doing it all, I am trying to keep my applications as needed in my bee yard. Normal vaporizing, 3 weeks after treatment of OA, I would get varroa. Adding the strips to treated hives keep them healthy. This procedure is promising when you have several hundred hives...
@@tomahawkmissile241 a zero count doesn’t mean no varroa. It only means the count is below the minimum pre determined threshold. Mites are still in the hive and reproducing.
Enjoyed your interview with Dr David
I use 4 grams for 2 brood boxes and have treated 9 times so far this fall and am seeing HUGE mite drops each time. Interval all within 6 days. I feel like its nothing like Formic Pro where no more mites drop after 2 weeks. What am I doing wrong?
Great discussion. Got to meet David at the Big Bee Buzz in Tulsa, OK. We disscussed his bear bag, hive hang. 😊 He is a great asset to the bee keeping community.
I think part of the problem is how “greedy” we are. I don’t keep bees for honey. I just think they are cool. Soooo. I don’t manage my hives very well. I’ve treated one time ever. My first / oldest is 4 or 5 years and it was on my property and I hired someone to do a trap out.
I let the bees draw their own comb and do their thing. When there is some extra honey I grab it sometimes. They swarm and make tons of drones. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area on some open space and catch swarms on my property or nearby.
I notice most of the bee keepers in my local club replace their bees most years (225.00per nuke!). I wonder if our management practices are a major part of the mite problem.
I do lose some colonies, but I’m about 6 or 7 consistently without doing anything.
Is it possible that some of the OA leaves a bit of a resin inside of the vaporizer over time so is it possible that a newer unit could be more effective than an older one? Or like you guys said, differences between brands and models.
I realize this is wicked after the fact, but is research available for the OA & grain alcohol (fogger) method?
Kamon, great show! Hearing how clear David is on the subject is refreshing.
Great interview! I wonder if the Chinese honey coming into the US has the same overseeing, I think not…
AND of all the things allowed to be imported from there honey 🍯 should not be one of them especially knowing how they adulterate it .
LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY
Get your polititions to shut it down
Liked your "who to blame" for failure. I've determined that my bee management is my major cause for failure. No one to blame except ME!
just do a mite check
At 1:49:30, splitting as a method for Varroa control absolutely works!!!! In my opinion, this isn’t illegitimate.
I just subbed, love you content
Thanks gents. Great information
19:36 (on fixing the fed govt) looks like kaymon had an idea or two on how that could be done quickly…. Cheers guys thanks for everything
love this video.
Thanks Bub!
Maybe we should give the mites antibiotics so their bling will be worse than their bite...Great info and show.
Thanks for the video. OA is not effective if there is brood in the hive. Have you thought of making broodless period during May harvest using queen isolator made out of queen excluder material. Close her up for 21 days and treat. Europeans are doing it very effectively now.
Our tablets are still on track for EPA approval in October 2023. Been a long road,
Excellent point, nothing can be immune to everything all the time.
Hey James Lee good to see you on here! Hope you are having a great bee year
@@kamonreynolds there's wisdom in a multitude of counselors.
@@JamesLeesBees Well said!
Interesting that beekeepers around you aren’t having the same hive beetle problems this year.
i've used mineral oil and wintergreen oil for years sometime i do use oxcalic acid to if they get to hi couple oxcalic acid treatment and esential oil reg in between works good for me
This a great chat
When OA is outlawed, only outlaws will use OA says an outlaw Californian 😂
Cali outlawed OA vapoization....
Do they allow OA treated hives to migrate into Cali for almond pollination? If so are they attempting to guard against a toxic bee, toxic honey or maintaining a toxic hive in their state. If its the honey, do they not allow imported honey?
I will continue to use the LEAST amount of miticide I have to. Raising feral bees and not made my bees much better in their natural defensiveness/pest fighting abilities trying to breed out that to get "nice bees" has already caused us to now inclined to increase dosages of OA ect. I do the mite counts use only as needed.
Lactic and acetic acid are found in vinegar and lactic is ten times more acidic than vinegar
This check out Australia approach to Varroa mite plan 2023
What is the Best ratio OF Oxalic Acid, Glicerin and Distilled water for less than 10 colonies? Or Ratio for 1 hive colony?
Ratio or amount?
look up honeybee health coalation for comments
I been using O.A., And glycerin 50-50 by weight.
On a shamwow I cut into strips.
30l glycerine 25kg oxalic acid
I'm in Wisconsin and have top bar hives and my bees survived. I used oa vape and hopguard 3 and mite treatments. I used Randy Oliver's hopguard 3 experiment that is online. Every 2 weeks 3 times.
What result happened. Randy oliver explains no treatment is a success without checking.
@@tomahawkmissile241 I went from 6 to 0
You have no content. That's a pity.
@@brendawydeven2934 great job with that control
When did you use the Hopguard 3 (during honey flow?)
what about queen loss with the higher doses of oa
With some insecticides the EPA regulates the applicator device. I hope with this talk of temperatures on the label and percentage lost that the EPA doesn't get into making Vaporizer Companies register there products. Sorry for these late comments but somehow I just got notification from utube.
yeah the bees hate ox acid, divided the hive queen would no go near or over the strips, however i love to hear isreal slow release vaporizer, just a puff every so often, even vaporizes apivar with 90% chemical.
could always let the bees requeen with a split but it best to monitor the mites even with a puff emitor. Even try adding some new genetics like VSH, Minnosota Mite biter, Russian
Almost all companies that sell OA in USA will not provide you a Certificate of Analysis for their OA. This certificate tells the age and the contaminants percentages. Be careful. As of right now the EPA and USDA., 3 grams per brood box may be OKed with my tablets.
Kamon, you should try Formic Flash or Formic Brood brushing.
Formic is regulated. but in canada they do this
Nobody in America or europe can guarantee or get certified organic wax or honey!
u dont know how to use formic acid