Beekeeping - Oxalic Acid Treatment

This is another oxalic acid treatment. The main thing here is that I have made a new device for getting the vapor into the hive. It worked great! It was so much easier to use. It just sat on the top of the hive while I heated the oalic acid in the pipe cap.

this has worked great I have now done this treatment several times and have found many many mites in the bottom board tray afterwards. It can be done any time of the year and leaves no toxic residue build up.

Just to be clear Oxalic acid is not an approved mitricide in the US even though they have been using it for years in Europe and Canada. Places by the way where they have less mite problems and CCD....

My Disclaimer: Oxalic acid is approved for use as Wood Bleach for cleaning wood. My intention is to clean my wooden ware, it just so happens that this also kill mites.....

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Beekeeping
• Bees
• apiary
• oalic
• acid

[h1aa]

Thanks for your vids. I have just got a hive and I'll give this a go.

[ninja2134]

No Need to do this unless you have determined that you have a problem with mites.

You should do a sugar shake and see mow the mite drop is before doing this treatment.

[ninja2134]

No problem, sorry if I came across as defensive. I actually wasn't sure what I might have said about the mites, and there has been a lot of wild and crazy ideas about CCD out there.

I treat for mites when the load becomes too great for the collony to deal with. I think that long term we need to work towards hygenic resistant strains of bees. So these days I am less inclined to treat and more inclined to just let the weak ones go.

Alfred

[slacker361]

not being confrontational, just sharing information.

[ninja2134]

Nosema has been around for years as well. Just because a parrasite has been around for a long time doesn't mean that it can't be helping spread a new disease. look at the problem we are having here in colorado with west nile being spread by mosquitoes. Mosquitoes have been here for ever but the west nile is a new thing.

Alfred

[ninja2134]

I don't think that I said that they did, did I?

There are a lot of ideas about what ccd is and how it is spread. Mites very well might be part of the spread. I think that the last I read that the nosema apis parasite was strongly suspected as a carrier/spreader or in some way adding or exacerbating the CCD issue.

[slacker361]

mites have been on bees for millions of years , mites are not causing CCD

[mgfurst]

Why are you doing this ????

[ninja2134]

Thanks for the info, I have some polarized lenses that I use when I fly fish. I will try it.

Alfred

[chemcarr]

good idea with vaporising the oxalic acid. Video problems were reflections from the sky. Try putting a lens from a pair of regular polaroid spectacles in front of your camera lens. This should cut out all glare, (depending on quality of the polaroid)