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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #60 on: September 19, 2016, 07:48:22 pm »
That's what I'm thinking.

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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #61 on: September 20, 2016, 01:02:49 am »
Wman, when you say 'swimming in cooking oil', do you mean that they are dead and floating in cooking oil? or are they alive and wiggling in the cooking oil?

I could be reading more into how you phrased that... just curious to know  :)
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #62 on: September 20, 2016, 08:28:21 am »
They are deceased, Jen.

When I pull the tray out it is no longer level, and the liquid will flow to the lowest point bringing dead mites with it.

I've switched from soapy water to oil because we are going to be out of town for a few days, and the soapy water needs to be monitored pretty closely.
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #63 on: September 20, 2016, 12:56:41 pm »
Okay. My sticky boards will catch live wiggler mites as well. I take pleasure and comfort watching them die a slow death. I'm on my third OA treatment and I'm not finding any wigglers anymore.

I would say the first two treatments rendered approx 2,000 mite kill so far in each of 3 hives, and they are still dropping. Have one more treatment to go next weekend. It's a nice feeling when you know your bees will have a long mite free Fall season of foraging.
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #64 on: September 20, 2016, 09:39:40 pm »
It's a nice feeling when you know your bees will have a long mite free Fall season of foraging. Said Jen
May I say ditto to that. What a wonderful tool for our toolbox. Now where's that hive Beetle smoker killer.
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #65 on: September 20, 2016, 09:54:24 pm »
I dunno CBT, it took a while to discover the OA for mites. Will prob take some time for the Small Hive Beetle. But I'll tell ya what... If I ever get into one of my hives and it's full of slime.... I will just have to barf right then and there!
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« Reply #66 on: September 20, 2016, 10:38:56 pm »
I wonder if barf will kill SHB?
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« Reply #67 on: September 20, 2016, 11:00:04 pm »
omg.... LMAO
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #68 on: September 21, 2016, 02:07:45 pm »
Oxalic acid was around in the 50s and so cheap no one would pay to redo the application. They did not hive might issues then. I'm a little forgetful on how it was but when I first heard of the stuff did some research on and about. We have something that mounts on a shim with a sharp edge the Beatles can't get around that sounds promising.

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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #69 on: September 28, 2016, 09:12:54 pm »


   I know a few keeps lazy enough to apply OAV Once in the fall and once in the spring, and they seem to be getting away with it. I know keeps using it four times in a row...
   My own personal experience is that if the correct amount is used, and fully vaporized using the three treatment skip method, I usually have a 0 mite count a month later.. So make sure of the amount, Make sure it is not vaporizing too fast, or that you are not dumping some of it out when you pull the pan.
   Doing a treatment does not INSTANTLY kill all of the mites, it will kill them over the course of three or four days. More mites will emerge from capped cells and they need to be dealt with. If done at day o, seven, skip and 21 you will catch the vast majority of them and should not have a high count. if you do, something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

   I have become so confident that I seldom check all the hives. Checking three or four of them to insure their counts are low to 0 is all I do any more.
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #70 on: September 29, 2016, 12:57:24 am »
A little update on my little beeyard. I waited two weeks to allow capped brood to emerge, then placed sticky boards for  three days. My counts were Hive 1-3 per day, Hive 2-1.6 per day, Hive 3- 3 per day. Still raising brood but only about 1/3 of brood chamber is capped. So, I  waited 3 days and have placed sticky boards for a 7 day count. There is quite a bit of pollen coming in and considerable nectar. Looks like enough at this point to cover winter needs.

Weather is getting cooler but days are sunny and warm-bees working like trojans to bring in winter stores.
All and all I'm feeling pretty good. :)
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #71 on: September 29, 2016, 01:35:29 am »
 :bee: That makes me happy Neil!
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #72 on: September 29, 2016, 08:42:48 am »
My hive had 23 mites yesterday, 7 days after my 5th OAV treatment.
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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #73 on: September 29, 2016, 10:53:43 pm »
You may have brought down the mite load very low but think about the risk of all the pathogens and bad stuff they carry you have stopped. We think mites are bad. Maybe we should consider the bad baggage they carry.

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Re: OAV treatment
« Reply #74 on: September 29, 2016, 11:36:24 pm »
You may have brought down the mite load very low but think about the risk of all the pathogens and bad stuff they carry you have stopped. We think mites are bad. Maybe we should consider the bad baggage they carry.

I wasn't happy with the mite count.

I treated one more time today.  I'll give it a week, then count again.
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