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Oxleas Wood Apiary
APIARY UPDATE 10 JUNE 2015
VARROA DESTRUCTOR
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
honey flow
adequate foraging bees
V Destructor control 1st 2nd/3rd 4th
Prime Swarm Control
New Queen Rearing
Secondary Swarm Control
harvest Winter Stores
V DESTRUCTOR 2ND CAMPAIGNOXALIC ACID AS A MITICIDE
mite population relationship between
AND
mite natural life cycle
So, count the mites
Female mites 8 to 12 weeks summer lifetime, manages 2
reproductive cycles with 8 daughters in bee DRONE brood
DRONE brood yields about 4.2
mite/cell compared to 2.2
mite/cell for worker brood
TOLERABLE 24 HOUR MITE DROPMAY JUNE JULY AUGUST
6 10 16 33
V DESTRUCTOR ACTION TRIGGER THRESHOLDS
✔
Hive # V destructor 24 hour count
status
2 0 ✔3 0 ✔9 10 ✔/✖ marginal
(near drone laying hive)
19 2 ✔23 40 ✖ close to drone laying hive24 1 ✔25 2 ✔34 0 ✔
151 6 ✔ Honeybee Suppliers152 3 ✔ Honeybee Suppliers153 0 ✔ Park Beekeeping
V DESTRUCTOR 2ND CAMPAIGNOXALIC ACID AS A MITICIDE
SUCCESSFUL
V DESTRUCTOR 3RD CAMPAIGNPHYSICAL INTERVENTION - RED EYE DRONE BROOD
1st June 2015
8th June 2015
10th June 2015
HIVE HOMEOSTASIS
Diurnal Ambient
Internal Brood Chamber
NUKES – delivery possibly
Friday 12 June 2015
‘Thoughts & Reflections in a Lifetime of Beekeeping’
Godfrey Munroe
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