I’ve uploaded some field trip videos & CAUTION: This video is full of images of small hive beetle larvae. How I deal with small hive beetle in my hives.
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Thank you for all the info. It is one of the best videos I have? see showing what the small hive beetle larva look like. Do not worry about Wilma making muffins. It is not diturbing.
@bigcity1974 Thank you for that, you’ve inspired me to do this video again, without my wife working in the background. SORRY, but getting to the point takes a while, I need to be understood. There’s so much valuable information in that 8 minutes, which really would only be of interest to a beekeeper that’s concerned about small hive beetle in their hives. I see you keep bees, one day you might find some of this information? really handy & worth enduring my annoying talk. thanks again cheers.
Undisputed! One? of the most annoying videos. Get to the point, put away the friggn muffins “!!!!!!
Bees are nice
Worms are scary? :<
@sadia102 Hi sadia, thanks for that, it’s a fascinating study, i hope you end up with a hive? one day. anyway take care. regards jeff
Thank you for a very informative post. I enjoyed it a lot. I dont have any bees but with some dedicated planting I have gone from? no bees in the garden to many and appreciate learning what they go through. Maybe one day I will have a hive.
@sneakyam Hi again, I checked my other upload, “BEEKEEPING: my? BEEHIVE set up & making frames”. I do show the vinyl mat on that video & talk a little about the beetle.
@sneakyam frames, when you gently remove the mat, you can see how many beetle there are. I think the bees propolise the beetle in. It’s when you lift the lid & find beetle running everywhere, you’ve got? problems, it could be too late. I’ve lately discovered where the beetle got started on some drone comb but the bees were strong enough to overwhelm them & clean it up before the beetle took over, which was encouraging. I think the main thing is to keep the hives strong. anyway, take care, cheers.
@sneakyam Hi there, thanks for the question. I place a vinyl? mat on top of the frames, leaving a space all round. It’s just a piece of an offcut from a carpet shop. My lids have a recess, as you’ll see on my other video. The mat stops the bees building comb from the frames to the top of the lid, they can build comb between the top of the lid & the mat, that’s so much easier than when the bees build comb from the frames to the lid. Now I’m finding the bees corall the beetle between the mat & the
What do you mean? by “vinyl mat” – can you show us this strategy please.
@justkarmatoo I put them all back in the bucket, thousands of? them, & jammed the lid down tight, they’ll get put to sleep & buried. Actually, it wouldn’t be a silly idea if you kept bees & chooks to set something up so that the grubs would fall out in the chook yard, I’m sure the chooks would love them. Or a large fish pond. We’re a bit too confined here for chooks, sadly. Well, thanks again Mr.K. I’ll catch you later, bye for now.
@justkarmatoo Thanks for that Mr.K. LOL Wilma was grating some orange zest for an orange cake. It certainly sounded like she was getting stuck into a piece of wood with a hand saw. I guess, if your still interested in keeping bees, these beetle are are 1 of the cons to think? about. I should have mentioned, importantly, that it’s imperative to check your hives frequently, at least while these beetle are active. The next morning, you could hardly see the floor of the fish bin LOL, next post.
Thanks for the video Jeff. Love your big picture thinking. Disrupting the life cycle, taking a few precautionary measures, and keeping an eye out for trouble? makes a whole lot more sense than looking for a toxic quick fix. Take care and look forward to more informative videos……. I hear Wilma in the background with a handsaw. Sounds like she’s pretty good with it too.