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