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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DISEASE & PEST CONTROL => Topic started by: pdmattox on November 17, 2006, 12:24:13 am

Title: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: pdmattox on November 17, 2006, 12:24:13 am

What is your method to treat for these guy's?
           

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: TwT on November 17, 2006, 07:56:48 am

NONE, I have never had a problem with them, the most I have ever count at my place is 15 SHB's and thats all I counted in all 13 hives, not in a single hive, had 1 hive had 2 of them the others had 1 each. if I did have them I would use the method a lot of beekeepers use that works great, heres the link!!!

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=1974.0

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: Robo on November 17, 2006, 08:47:26 am

I don't have them. Yet :?

I'm in the mountains, so my beeyards are pretty isolated, and I'm hoping since I have stopped buying packages or nucs that I will stay SHB free.

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: qa33010 on November 18, 2006, 03:36:41 am

   I had them this year in one hive because I left a substitute patty on too long.  They weakened the hive enough that even after a few months of trying to save them  wax moths came in and I witnessed the bees absconding.  The other hives are strong and there is no problem with SHB.

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: TwT on November 19, 2006, 12:56:14 am

ATTENTION EVERYBODY THAT DOESN'T WANT A EXPLOSION OF SHB's
, If you feed pollen Pattie's feed in small amounts because SHB's love the stuff and will lay eggs on it... I do not feed whole pattie's at a time,

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: gottabee on November 25, 2006, 10:45:02 am

Great tip. I have not heard that before. Makes sense. 
1 hive I counted 34 of the devils. Others 3 or 4.
I am going to use the Combat method and see what happens.

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: tillie on November 25, 2006, 07:28:25 pm

I use the apple cider vinegar trap sold by Brushy Mountain and feel gleeful whenever I find it full of dead beetle bodies!   :lol: :lol: :lol:

Here's the trap:

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k288/tillielin/DSC01902.jpg)


Here's the trap with dead bodies floating and sunk to the bottom of it:

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k288/tillielin/DSC01981.jpg)

And here are some of the dead  :lol: :lol: :lol: bodies lying in state on my deck:

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k288/tillielin/DSC02211.jpg)

Seems to be working!

Linda T in Atlanta

Title: Re: Small hive beetle treatments?
Post by: Brian D. Bray on November 25, 2006, 10:10:40 pm

I do not have SHB in my area as yet, nor Do I have AHB but forewarned is forearmed.  What I learn here about these two beekeeping problems will be invaluable information if the day ever comes that either infests my area.  thanks.