Varroa Destructor: Know Your Enemy

Varroa Destructor: Know Your Enemy
Understanding The Varroa Cycle Is SO Important
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[@tomkingsley4398]

Great information, thanks for sharing

[@bluelab5019]

Excellent video. Great job

[@j0k1_theBeekeeper]

Hi Lawrence,

[@BadaBingBadaBoomYT]

Thank you, very informative, parts I was wondering about.

[@williamsummers6438]

Adopting the ZEST hive will do what you want to the point of being functionally free of varroa. It is a horizontal hive made out of aerated concrete blocks which gives both insulation (39 times better (R) value than a traditional thin walled vertical wood hive) and consequentially a bee pupation period that is shortened by up to 3 days, allowing the varroa less time to mature and hatch from the cells, reducing their numbers below replacement level. With top entry it is also a naturally humid hive being up to 20% more humid,...... which varroa also do not enjoy. That part is well known.

[@pcelarskisokak]

successful beekeeping is constant fight for more brood in the bee hive....since varoa came this is more actual definition

[@Peaboi_]

thanks for the info :)

[@laurad2136]

If there is no brood (like in winter) how do varroa mites survive?

[@busatrx850]

Hi Lawrence. I’m considering carrying out a shook swarm on a couple of my colonies fairly early this year and was wondering if it would be beneficial to do an oxalic acid sublimate after the process? My thoughts being there would be no brood at that point. I’d bi interested in your (and other viewers) thoughts.

[@brucklay227]

How do you actually apply oxalic acid to the hive?

[@arronbwabw504]

Really good detailed information. I bought stripes for the end of summer, but only having one hive didn't use half of them. Is a good or bad idea to use stripes twice a year? I've read the mites could become resistant.

[@45ksubscribers-x2x]

Good

[@Sageandbellflowerhoneybees]

Super calm bees!

[@jerry4256]

Do mites only lay in drone cells?

[@PrzemoKow]

Hi Lawrence, how would you treat your bee's for varroa if you planing to do demarre next year as swarm control and the box/frames can't be exposed to i.e. Apivar ?

[@Markp5337]

Hi, what do you do with your heather colonies?

[@edwardwalton3661]

Hi what bee treatment are you going to ues next year thanks you