Supercon 2022: On Treating Your Sensor Data Well 3 Comments It’s nice to see people trying new things, but you need to fully understand the requirements before extolling the virtues of a new design that fails to meet many of those requirements. (Often using one treatment only once per year, or less if feasible). (As happened in the early days of mite control). The topic is vast, and successful beekeepers study up and pick a regiment that works with their climate, and that varies treatments so one isn’t overused bringing the possibility of resistant mites. It’s most effective when there is no capped brood. Oxalic alone is not an effective strategy. Successful beekeepers generally use a range of tactics to control the mites, and some require opening the hive.
Each seems to have better effectiveness at various times of year (formic works in the early and late season as well as thymol because of temperature requirements), some are non-toxic like oxalic acid, but still not recommended for when honey supers are on (last I checked anyhow). There are other contactless methods of mite control with various efficacy, but most beekeepers will tell you that you need to vary the treatments. Especially in the late season when you get “varroa bombs” from collapsing hives. The multiple treatment regimen helps, but there are still capped mites no matter what. In fact, many hive designs that aren’t removable frames have been outlawed in many places because they are breeding grounds for mites, and do not allow effective mite control. As part of clean out after freezing, you randomly sample cells for mites, gives you a good idea of what the mite load was before the drone frame, and puts a dent int the mite population enhancing the effectiveness of other treatments like oxalic acid vaporization). (Mites seem to prefer drone brood – so you put an oversized cell frame in, the queen concentrates drones there, mites somewhat concentrate there, before the drones emerge, you freeze the frame. But you need to be able to remove the drone frame. Hive inspections, easier novel mite control, brood inspection…heck, one easy way of mite control is to use drone frames. I think he might be missing a lot of points of removable frames and “contact” beekeeping. Posted in green hacks Tagged bee, beekeeping, bottle, hive, honey, insulation, nature, plastic, tree Post navigation Once you’ve started, though, take a look at some other builds which augment the hive with some monitoring technology. Even if you don’t live in a part of the world where the Langstroth hive is common, this system still should be possible to get up and running with a minimum of financial investment.
He hopes this idea will help inspire those with an interest in the hobby who wouldn’t otherwise have the large amount of money it takes to set up even a few Langstroth-type hives. The bottles can be closed and moved easily without contacting the bees, and he even creates honey supers out of smaller bottles which allows honey to be harvested without disturbing the core beehive.There are a number of strategies to improve the bees’ stay in the bottles as well, such as giving them wooden skewers in the bottle to build their comb on and closing the bottles in insulation to help the hives regulate their temperature more evenly and to keep them dark. Bees can enter in the opening at the bottle and build their comb inside from the top down. In nature, bees like to live inside of things like hollowed-out tree trunks, so he has modeled his hive design after that by basing it around large inverted plastic bottles. But that really just means that beekeeping as a hobby is rife with opportunities for innovation, and is pioneering his own modern style of beehive. While it does have some nice features like movable frames, the march of history has progressed considerably while this core of beekeeping practices has changed very little. One of the most common types of beekeeping hive is based around the Langstroth hive, first patented in the United States in 1852.
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