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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13312" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Follow up from today. All hives had been treated with 2 strips of Apivar into the single brood box, same way I always have with Apivar, which in the past has normally got an excellent result.</p><p></p><p>Today I did 2 more sites. The first one was encouraging, nice clean brood and happy looking bees, no evidence of varroa. The next site was bad. Dead brood, bees with DWV, hives dangerously weak.</p><p></p><p>I did not do any mite washes, the hives at the good site were obviously fine, and the hives at the bad site were obviously badly infested.</p><p></p><p>Rather worrying, in the bad hives the Apivar has had pretty much nil effect. The Apivar I am using is due to expire next month so maybe that has something to do with it, but still does not explain why the excellent result at one site and terrible result at other sites.</p><p></p><p>The two bad sites have a very shonky beekeeper nearby with a large number of hives, more than 100 at one site. So there is possible reinvasion. However I would have thought that if the Apivar was working properly it would still have caught most of the new arrivals before they did too much harm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 13312, member: 13"] Follow up from today. All hives had been treated with 2 strips of Apivar into the single brood box, same way I always have with Apivar, which in the past has normally got an excellent result. Today I did 2 more sites. The first one was encouraging, nice clean brood and happy looking bees, no evidence of varroa. The next site was bad. Dead brood, bees with DWV, hives dangerously weak. I did not do any mite washes, the hives at the good site were obviously fine, and the hives at the bad site were obviously badly infested. Rather worrying, in the bad hives the Apivar has had pretty much nil effect. The Apivar I am using is due to expire next month so maybe that has something to do with it, but still does not explain why the excellent result at one site and terrible result at other sites. The two bad sites have a very shonky beekeeper nearby with a large number of hives, more than 100 at one site. So there is possible reinvasion. However I would have thought that if the Apivar was working properly it would still have caught most of the new arrivals before they did too much harm. [/QUOTE]
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