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My shopping list from the helpful guys on here... OA £6.50 https://the-beekeeping-shop.co.uk/product/oxalic-acid/ Vaporizer £29 https://www.fruugo.co.uk/beehive-vaporizer-12v-bee-vaporizer-oxalic-acid-vaporizer-varroa-treatment-m68e/p-150169557-317237305?language=en PPE mask £21...

Eric (Dani), Eric and Enrico. Got it 👌😄 Hi all 👋👋

Lol ah, hi Dani 👋

So, Apivar, abit rubbish? Is it OAV all the way in terms of preventing / treating varroa?

Hi Brenda, good advice 👍

Hi Eric 👋

No. Isn't there a smell off EFB as well? There isn't any smell here.

Yes that's the sunlight

Thanks for the helpful replies everyone. Really appreciate it.

Thanks Eric. We had put in an apivar into both hives middle of August. Didn't suspect varroa for that reason. The hive was queenless for a good while and I had thought lack of nurse bees reason for dry larvae, coupled with suspected poor queen mating during bad weather the problem has just...

Thanks for heads up Enrico. Any budget ones you would recommend?

Thanks Emily. Bit frightening when EFB mentioned but it is what it is and may as well get sorted, learn from it and move on. Looks like that colony is a goner whatever it is.

No it's maybe 6-7 frames of bees coverage.

Oh dear 😟. Thanks for feedback. Will get in touch with SBI.

Thanks Pargyle. I've just bought the budget vaporizer and some OA so will give it a go when they arrive and move them over to a small nuc and see how it goes.

Thanks for the tips and encouragement Pargyle. I'll check out the OA which I must admit I'd never heard of so was quickly youtubing it there in between your replies.

Hey thanks for reply. We put 1 apivar strip in each hive mid August. The bees in that hive do look scrawny though compared to the other hive. But maybe just old and lack of nurse bees has affected the queen laying pattern maybe? Or maybe queen just didn't mate well? It was quite wet the period...

Hi forum, I'm a new bee keeper from Co. Down area in Northern Ireland, with this my 1st year in beekeeping. Started it with my dad keeping 2 hives at his house. Love it but it's such a learning curve and have made quite a few mistakes but hopefully learning from them. Glad to find this resource...

Hi forum, I'm a new beekeeper in my 1st year of beekeeping and it's been a steep learning curve. I have 2 hives currently one is going well with 4/5 frames of stores and 2/3 frames of brood. The 2nd is weak and getting weaker it seems. It was hopelessly queenless for about 6 weeks before we...