Wintering bees

[Vicken]

Do I need grease patties for winter how much should i feed the bees winter here winter is 4 months
Varroa mites made lot of deformed wing viruses, what should i do in these case

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[Michael Bush]

>Do I need grease patties for winter

No.

> how much should i feed the bees winter here winter is 4 months

Winter everywhere is 3 months.  Officially anyway.  I assume you mean that period when nothing is blooming.  Ask your neighbors.  You don't say where you are, so it's hard to say.  Also, it depends on how many bees are going into winter (how strong or big is the hive).

Varroa mites made lot of deformed wing viruses, what should i do in these case

[Vicken]

Do i leave my bees strugling with deformed wing virus, I cleaned a carniolen hive from varroa 99% but it cost me a lot of time and i used for that Emitraz 20% ,by letting it vaporize under the frames 40 days of everyday opening hive and dropping some drops of Emitraz,  though it is a contaminating substance for the bees but, it left no varroa at all, I can't use this methode for 100 hives, nor have Apivar? ,it's scarse now,  I thought perhaps Apiguard? like thymol grease patties could do the job, just need advise

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