I was going to help do a unite tonight for a beginner, a third year Beekeeper had given her this morning a five frame Nuc to unite with her queenless colony (DLQ killed last night)
so first thing tonight was to check the Nuc provided by the third year ............ .ahhhhh
i found two tubs of freshly opened apiguard on the Nuc !!!!!!!
:hairpull : that's 100 grams of Apiguard and the dose for a Nuc is 25 grams , that's a lethal dose to the Nuc
so the unite did not go ahead, and to say the bees were agitated is an understatement . They had not calmed down 20 mins after we had removed the two apiguard tubs
Email sent to third year and the reply , oh we got confused, we put two tub on all our hives , i will remove the second tub i put on my other hives ============no wonder they never got their bees through last winter
so first thing tonight was to check the Nuc provided by the third year ............ .ahhhhh
i found two tubs of freshly opened apiguard on the Nuc !!!!!!!
:hairpull : that's 100 grams of Apiguard and the dose for a Nuc is 25 grams , that's a lethal dose to the Nucso the unite did not go ahead, and to say the bees were agitated is an understatement . They had not calmed down 20 mins after we had removed the two apiguard tubs
Email sent to third year and the reply , oh we got confused, we put two tub on all our hives , i will remove the second tub i put on my other hives ============no wonder they never got their bees through last winter
