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<blockquote data-quote="JohnF" data-source="post: 3190" data-attributes="member: 233"><p>Watching this Australian video (yep, they're encouraging all beekeepers to do sugar shakes to watch against varroa and other grebblies) - but I wondered if anyone has any different steps to this.</p><p>For instance, I catch several frames of bees into a gubba and then scoop out by 1/2 a cup (the video seems to have over a whole cup . . but then they have no 'percentage' for 300 bees anyway I guess).</p><p>But the main thing I note is the actual shake to knock out the varroa. I was taught/told/read . .or indeed otherwise understand, that the shaking has to be a lot more vigorous than the gentle tapping here. Thoughts? For me the key things are rolling time in sugar, waiting a few minutes before sharp shakes of the jar.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MCH8H6yXKcU[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnF, post: 3190, member: 233"] Watching this Australian video (yep, they're encouraging all beekeepers to do sugar shakes to watch against varroa and other grebblies) - but I wondered if anyone has any different steps to this. For instance, I catch several frames of bees into a gubba and then scoop out by 1/2 a cup (the video seems to have over a whole cup . . but then they have no 'percentage' for 300 bees anyway I guess). But the main thing I note is the actual shake to knock out the varroa. I was taught/told/read . .or indeed otherwise understand, that the shaking has to be a lot more vigorous than the gentle tapping here. Thoughts? For me the key things are rolling time in sugar, waiting a few minutes before sharp shakes of the jar. [MEDIA=youtube]MCH8H6yXKcU[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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