How to use Thymovar To Treat Bees For Varroa Mites
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this video I show you how to apply Thymovar. A treatment that kills the varroa mites.
Varroa mites can seriously damage your honey bees and depending on what part of the world you live in I would seriously recommend you treat your bees to reduce as much varroa as you possibly can from the bees so that they can go into winter strong.
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Great channel! Thank you. I was looking for something to take the place of apivar. I might try this out.
Glad it was helpful! Il be using a bit more thymovar this year too
Hi Gwenyn, thank you mate, I was gonna try something new this season I usually use apivar or apiguard and was thinking of a different treatment I’ll do a sugar shake first and see what I have so thanks for sharing this other method of treatment , so easy to administer so I will check out the link on your vlog. Thank you mate.
No problem. 😊
This was a very informative video and this sounds like an excellent product for treating varroa mites. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry about that I had to go in and correct my Dragon NaturallySpeaking that replaced was with wasn't LOL. Because this was a very informative video.
I hope the wasn’t was suppose to be was? Autocorrect gets me all the time!! 😊
No problem glad you found it useful 😊
😁😁 thank you. And thanks for taking the time to comment and contribute to the channel.
Really appreciate it. 😊👍🏻
@@gwenyngruffydd I'm always happy to support a fellow beekeeper my friend. And yeah AutoCorrect stinks sometimes LOL.
It’s so good. But it can be soo wrong too!! 😁😂
after 3_4 days it will be small i dont know bees eat it or it will evaporate, Anyway bees dropps it out ,and you have to put it back to the hives its better you fix it between 2 frames.
Good vid ,I've gone with apiguard this year, havnt noticed hardly any more drop mind but hoping second dose will do the trick ! Will try this next year
Are the bees starting to remove the foam from inside the pack?
@@gwenyngruffydd yeah they are , I'm feeding them same time as they light as toast on stores . That being said its from a new nuc and isolated on own so might not be a large mite load to begin with
Don’t look into mite drop to much....it’s interesting to know but if you treat every year your keeping your bees healthy and varroa free. High or low levels untreated will all end up high over winter.
With Thymol based treatment you will more than likely see a higher drop on the second dose.
@@gwenyngruffydd spot on mate thanks , gonna give em the oxalic for christmas to make sure they clean for season ahead!
A lot of people do that! It’s very effective. 😊👍🏻
Is that treatment per box or per hive(2 or more hive boxes)? without honey supers for sure. thank you enjoyed the video.
I can’t remember off the top of my head. I think the more boxes the more strips you add.
Yes definitely without the honey supers on.
A 2nd year beekeeper. We have a full hive, a split and a swarm from July to see through the winter. I have received the Thymovar to apply this weekend. The split and the swarm have no supers, the main hive has had 2 supers we were were due to take, but when we went last weekend after this awful weather, they had taken their own honey. It says to change the mesh floors to solid floors during treatment. We don't have any! What would your solution be? Should we remove the supers anyway before treatment and feed..... we are feeding all hives at the moment anyway, about 1.5 litres every 2 days they have cleared! Sorry for the long question 😁😁
Hi,
Yes take the empty supers off and the queen excluder , bees won’t need them now.
Treat and feed at the same time. Heft the hive first to see how heavy they are. If their really heavy no need to feed.
Has your floor got a varroa board? If so use that if not don’t worry to much about it, it will still work but you may need to use OA in the winter as a second dose.
Get a bigger feeder 1.5 is to small. Unless your hive is in the garden then it’s ok. 😊
Hope this helps? 😊
Thanks Gruff - would you treat with this product regardless of your hives having varroa, or would you do a count first to see if treatment is actually required?
Personally I would treat regardless. Even low levels in August can expand to high levels in the winter.
I know my bees are not resistant to varroa and most bees are the same.
Breeders are working on a varroa resistant strain at the moment but are not available yet to buy. It’s a long road before bees become resistant.
The way I look at it is I look after the bees and the bees look after me.
Any thoughts on how I would use these in a Top Bar Hive?
Would there be space on top of the frames?
@@gwenyngruffydd The frames fit tightly together and create a seal, unlike the frames of a Langstroth.
You may need to hang them down between the frames?
@@gwenyngruffydd Thanks.
Hi, I've taken on a big hive in a jumbo Langstroth from a retiring beekeeper. I want to treat for varroa for peace of mind, as I'm not too sure what their treatment history is, although they look very strong and healthy. I don't have access to a sublimator for oxalic acid and its also been quite warm where I'm based in Southern England. Could I use Thymovar in Jan/Feb before the spring flow begins? Also do you know what the withdrawl rate for apivar is, as I was going to use that but would prefer to go the organic route if possible. Is their any chance of the Amitraz from apivar ending up in the supers when I put them on later in the season? Thanks a lot!
Hi, from memory Apivar is zero withdrawal from memory. Thymovar I can’t remember.
I would be tempted with either thymovar or apiguard in end of March early April.
It’s really mild now so could potentially work now but it could go cold again. Either way I would personally hold out to early spring and not put supers on in till treatment is over.
@@gwenyngruffydd Thanks for the info! I may just go for a one-off apivar treatment this time around then, given the warm spell may have helped increase the varroa population and the fact it can be used anytime of the year. Then I’ll use organic treatments at their optimal times from then on.
Don’t suppose you know where I could get a reasonably priced sublimox for oxalic acid sublimation? The ones I’ve seen are about £300 plus which would be fine if I had a lot of hives, but I’m only a hobbyist.
No idea how you could get one for less unless you’ll get lucky on eBay finding a second hand one.
You could get one of those gas burning ones? I think they are a lot cheaper.
Just remember even though Apivar is zero withdrawal you still can’t use it with the supers on.
Is that all you use to treat?
No by the time I remove supers off to take advantage of the balsam it’s to late to use thymovar. But I do like it as a treatment. I’ve done 1 whole site with it this year.
Always a good thing to rotate treatments when you can.
Gwenyn Gruffydd what about oxalis acid vaporisation? Do you have any thoughts on that?
It works well....but it is time consuming between the set up and visits and the need to wear a mask.
But it does knock the mites for 6. Very effective if done right.
It tells you not to feed in the instructions.
I know. But sometimes you have no choice