Varroa Mites & Fall Feeding Beekeeping 101 GardenFork

[samsonje]

We also use powdered sugar but I made a frame to put on top with window screen, about a 1 inch space from the top of the Hive body and bottom of the screen. Pour the sugar on the screen and then brush. It evenly covers the bees and falls between the frames but you and you never directly touch the bees with a brush. Another benefit is it traps the mad bees between the Hive body and the screen.

[erochow]

@samsonje good idea, i will do that next year. thanks for that, eric. 

[js302]

good video thanks !

[erochow]

@js302 thanks. i am making insulated inner covers for the winter for the beehives today . will make a video about it. eric.

[kdog4207]

like your vid. when you apply your powder sugar try to take your inner cover off then give them couple puffs then put a piece of window screen on the deep then dump your powder sugar on the screen then spread it around with your bee brush. (gets much evenly spread)

[cicvara1985]

hey guys i loved your video, i keep bees here in bosnia and herzegovina. bees are indeed most amazing animals (insects). i also love the way you and your wife get along and sweet talk to bees hehe, best wishes in life and beekeeping...

[dicamark]

this video is great thanks :)

[stt60]

This has always intrigued me. I live in the heart of fruit and grape growing where spraying goes on thru the growing season. How far away would a hive need to be to not be effected?

[chuckarama451]

Guys take all the covers?! Did I hear that right? They have to because all the lady bees are always putting their cold feets on them!

[richprior]

Would cranking the sugar through a flour sifter get you a more uniform distribution? Just a thought.

[erochow]

good idea. yes, it would, but i didn't have one.

you could pre-load the sifter, then open up the hive. there is also a powdered sugar puffer on the market that is being redesigned that will work even better for varroa mite sugar treatment.

[richprior]

How about a regular hand pump duster, but CLEARLY marked as devoted for bee sugar ONLY!!! I suggested the flour sifter since you could deliver a more pinpoint, potent, less drifty, wasteful mite bombing as the puffy methods would. You could get the delivery system spot on without waste.

I don't keep bees. I'd like to, but my neighbors are too close.. Also, if I set up hives my partner would freak. He's "colony collapse" aware and worried but nimby.

I'm a plant guy. Bees are crucial!

[erochow]

i've seen those dusters, and the one for bees is similar, the company is doing a redesign and will produce them again soon. thx, eri c

[chaz706]

I don't see how more bees are a bad thing.

[KayakFisher01]

Glad to see your not wearing your WHOLE-Y pants this time. Seems your all geared up and well protected.

[erochow]

yes, thx, and i made sure to put the hive covers away from my feet. so the bees on the covers would not see my socks.

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[skycub99]

i love your beekeeping videos, so cool!

Also, i work in a bookstore and the Dummies books are nothing to scoff at, they are some of the best selling instructional books out there. They got me through all my biology and chemistry courses in college. Plus they even helped me learn to sew and get started playing the guitar, two things i always wanted to do but didn't really think i could learn.

i'm very pro-dummies obviously. : )

[erochow]

they are good books, especially the beekeeping book. thx for watching, check out our site for more stuff. eric.