alice-edmund
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2013
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- Location
- Droitwich Spa
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 3.5
Very briefly - I have two Apimaye hives which have removable debris trays - cleaned and replaced on 14th March - checked both and estimated mite drop of about 7/day/hive after 14 days. Treated 1 hive with Hiveclean (i forgot to do the other) and cleaned the trays - next day 1 tray had about 70 dead varroa; the untreated hive had 5; recleaned, replaced; after three more days (today); the treated hive had another 100 plus or so dead varroa; the untreated maybe 25.
So - assuming 10,000 bees/hive currently and 1 varroa/bee and no new varroa being added at the moment - this implies at least 2% of the treated bees had varroa. Does anyone have any idea what sort of kill I might have achieved and what sort of infestation level I had and may still have now. I'm going to do the other hive ASAP if the weather looks OK - but any comments or other advice? I started 2013 so am still new.
So - assuming 10,000 bees/hive currently and 1 varroa/bee and no new varroa being added at the moment - this implies at least 2% of the treated bees had varroa. Does anyone have any idea what sort of kill I might have achieved and what sort of infestation level I had and may still have now. I'm going to do the other hive ASAP if the weather looks OK - but any comments or other advice? I started 2013 so am still new.