Sugar Shaking Our Bee Hive

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Uploaded by on Feb 13, 2011

A video of how we sugar shake our hives to remove some of the Varroa Mites. Filmed in the hills of West Auckland, New Zealand.

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  • Better audio plz

  • @bigcity1974 Thanks for the feedback, yes point taken we must try harder with the audio. Will look at doing some audio voice overs, which seem to sound better than the camera's small mic.

  • Thanks for comment. Yep deformed wings is a sure sign that you have mites, the mites act like mosquitoes distributing Malaria. The mites don’t cause the viruses, but they do spread them around the hive. Good luck with your bees….Gary

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  • Great job! I found a "Sugar Shaker" similar to yours. I'll give it a try this year, along with my mosquito fogger, filled with Food Grade Mineral Oil and pure Thymol Crystals. The last few days here were warm enough to feed a little syrup for a week hive I have. As I watched the bees that were walking in front, I noticed one with deformed wings. Yep, the little buggars are in there.

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