Are these small hive Beetles?

[Wandering Man]

In our location, success against SHB has been achieved with strong colonies, in the sun with afternoon shade (it is very hot here), and the beetle be gone pads.   At last month's Bee Club, I learned some are using beer in the beetle jails, instead of mineral oil.   

Beer?  Gotta wonder how many they'd been drinking to come up with that as a solution.

 

[Newbee]

Small Hive Beetle would probably still be running around in there with the bees.  The bees usually chase them up to the top of the hive and try to corral them. They will even overwinter with the cluster.  If you have seen some SHB around, but not in the hive, I would go ahead and install some beetle blasters aka beetle jails.  They are a great way to tell if you have some lurking around and they are chemical free.

I ran them  in my hive last year with Carni's with goods success. This year my hive has russian bee's, and nary a one was found in the  traps (yet I have seen them in the hive top feeder)   :eusa_think:

I second the advice however, cheap and easy, little to no downside.

- K