Hi from southern New Zealand 👋 😃 Yeah, i use oav and oxalic acid sponges and every so often I find a queen will stop laying for a few days so you're not alone there. I check queenless suspect hives by shoving a frame of eggs in from another colony to see what results i get because of the possibility the queen just stopped laying for a while. Mostly i find this issue with queens i get from a Canterbury queen breeder, not sure why🤷😁👋
why are you using OAV without isolation of a queen? that makes no sens. Studies show that you have much better results with OAV when you dont have capped brood in the hive.
@ I treat every 3 days for at least 2 weeks. This gets the mites that are on the bees and also any emerging from the capped brood. In my area bees can forage almost year round. I want to keep the population up. Thanks for watching.
Glad to see you had a queen.
It was definitely a surprise. Thanks again for watching.
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋 😃 Yeah, i use oav and oxalic acid sponges and every so often I find a queen will stop laying for a few days so you're not alone there. I check queenless suspect hives by shoving a frame of eggs in from another colony to see what results i get because of the possibility the queen just stopped laying for a while. Mostly i find this issue with queens i get from a Canterbury queen breeder, not sure why🤷😁👋
I do the same as far as moving a frame of eggs over but we are getting into winter so decided not to. Thanks for the comment.
why are you using OAV without isolation of a queen? that makes no sens. Studies show that you have much better results with OAV when you dont have capped brood in the hive.
@ I treat every 3 days for at least 2 weeks. This gets the mites that are on the bees and also any emerging from the capped brood. In my area bees can forage almost year round. I want to keep the population up. Thanks for watching.