American Beekeeper tried the new Anti-Varroa Mite Solution to Help Honey Bees.

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9 ай бұрын

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ToBe team let a commercial beekeeper to play with their new device (HiveMaster) in American soil and the results were very interesting. Let me know what do you think.
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@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

What do you think of this device? Should I keep covering or not? If I get some of them would you like to try it yourself? let me know your thoughts and sign up my email list to get priority in case I get some to try out. Cheers.

@jeffd8603 9 ай бұрын

I am in maine and would love to sign up to test in the cold area to see if it increases over wintering here

@brendawydeven2934 9 ай бұрын

Yes

@brendawydeven2934 9 ай бұрын

How do I e mail you?

@SunsetHoney615 9 ай бұрын

Do you have a financial interest in this start up? Are you involved in funding the work? Some transparency goes a long way. The results look great. Is there an independent team also trialling the work?

@lorriebuxton2041 9 ай бұрын

I keep bees in southern NH would love to try using formic pro and aoxalic vapor

@cartert8038 9 ай бұрын

As a "hobby" beekeeper, I'm very interested in how these autonomous devices can help us control mite loads. Thanks for your work on this and other research, and please keep us up to date on when these new devices might be available here in the USA.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

You bet!

@rickwarner516 9 ай бұрын

I’m in Switzerland right now so I’ll be looking for this device for use in my hives later. This could be a game changer for backyard bee keepers. Three things to consider price, price and of course price

@rickwarner516 9 ай бұрын

And yes put me on the list of the 100 if you will and as always thank you for making this content 👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️

@user-yi9pp7yq1d 9 ай бұрын

As a beekeeper in Iowa I feel that it would benefit in many many ways and would love to get a few in my apiaries

@bigbob5603 9 ай бұрын

This could be a breakthrough solution to the biggest concern of all bee keepers. I will continue to monitor the progress and do my own testing as soon as they are available. Thank You

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed!

@susanrowland8915 9 ай бұрын

Yes, you should ask for the product to test it out with small beekeepers, and with OA. I avoid the synthetic chemicals, and would be most interested in seeing how it works with OA or other “natural” products. Logic suggests it should be the same. Thank you (and Mr. Richmond) so much for taking a look at the product.

@beebob1279 9 ай бұрын

Mites have grown grown resistant to Amitraz so it's not an effective method of mite control

@marymelchior9558 9 ай бұрын

Formic as well as OA, especially since it penetrates capped brood.

@Chard-Bees 9 ай бұрын

This sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing the hope we might get ahead of these little beasts! God bless!

@spudgn 9 ай бұрын

Thanks professor. Always love to get the lowdown on stuff. ( the real information ). This will be fantastic.

@amym8768 9 ай бұрын

How exciting!! Thank you, let's do it!

@StanGore-mk8ow 9 ай бұрын

you have got my attention....thanks for the well done video! there is hope!!

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed!

@jimhughes6794 9 ай бұрын

As a hobbyist who has a lot of hives, I would be interested in using the product for testing in my Georgia hives. The tested success you have seen may be different in various geographic regions. This product will also be driven by its price. Thanks for sharing and keep us up to date on the product and availability.

@imafreeamerican7443 9 ай бұрын

Yes, keep covering it. I saw that device and wrote to them. Found out it was not ready for hobbyist yet. I’m hoping it will be soon.

@notRCrosleyHacked 9 ай бұрын

Sounds great I am starting my first vehicle next year in Braxton,WV mountain area

@brucesbees 9 ай бұрын

Nice job. Enjoyed this video! Interesting stuff for sure!

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@MrCloscutz 9 ай бұрын

Good luck with thw device!

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Thanks

@jovanvujovic3932 9 ай бұрын

Bravo

@Teresa-dl7hj 8 ай бұрын

Would love to try this device.

@PaoloMalacarne-xf7kp 9 ай бұрын

Molto interessante grazie a presto ciao paolo

@jeffd8603 9 ай бұрын

Lol I want to jump on this. I would love to see the oav version available

@Swarmstead 9 ай бұрын

Selection for mites tolerant to these treatments will happen so fast with such pressure, but you'll be rich if you can get a cut of every sale before that happens.

@Klevjer 9 ай бұрын

Definitely support your testing. Am a hobby beekeeper as well and am very interested in further testing and availability.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

As you saw. I am trying to get my hands on them. :)

@jeffd8603 9 ай бұрын

@@InsideTheHiveTV is there any help you need to be able to get them or post information on who we need to overwhelm with requests lol

@nightswan1234 9 ай бұрын

As with the same concerns as others in terms of stressing the bees, I will also add cost/ pricing as a concern.

@AnnA-sy8wz 9 ай бұрын

I would love to try this! While I only have 2 small yards (10 hives total) I tend to, I would feel so much better about selling honey if I knew that the amount of pesticides I used were so much less.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

music to my ears. :)

@ToBeeOrNotToBeHoney 9 ай бұрын

I would love to have a chance to test this with an organic chemical such as OA. It makes a lot of sense that a low does more consistently would be more effective than a high dose less often. However, it also depends on the if the chemical is likely to cause issues such as increased stress on the bees. There are a lot of variables. I have had better results with OA every 3 days than OA once a week. So a lower does every day might be even better or perhaps multiple times in a day. Then again it might causes more stress depending on the way it is distributed. Perhaps an OA solution could be cold fogged with something like the foggers/humidifiers people use to add vanilla scent to their homes. That would increase humidity at the cost of not using 430F vapor... Lots of variables, lots of possibilities...

@toolsofthefuture 9 ай бұрын

Bee Strong, Varroa Mites Wrong: Together We Can!

@walmartsocks 9 ай бұрын

How much ? Sounds good !!

@bobmorrison9537 9 ай бұрын

Would like to see non toxic used, like mineral oil with maybe wintergreen essential oils.

@shelleyham 9 ай бұрын

I would like to try this out here in Hawaii

@nancynolton6079 9 ай бұрын

Would be interested to see more results and testing here in the US.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Me too.

@sierrabravo7368 9 ай бұрын

What happened to the purple hive entrance that detects varoah mites on bees and then traps the bee and the mite keeping the colony safe. I am sure I saw a story about this on Landline TV show

@paulfairbrass4424 9 ай бұрын

Anything that helps in the reduction of veroa. And with such great results, it would be great to have an oxialic version.

@dcsblessedbees 9 ай бұрын

I'd be interested in seeing info on repeat OA treatments.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Me too.

@williamdale4348 9 ай бұрын

Can you buy this device in Canada and if so how much

@boboften9952 4 ай бұрын

Less pesticides Less having to attend the hive Less having to open the hive colony and place items , chemicals inside , Higher effectiveness rate Excellent Hopefully these cartridges can be refilled and reused and are cheap , very cheap This is an excellent advancement

@daleford5531 9 ай бұрын

I use Formica acid..it is all natural in fact wants create it..the device should provide it too

@MinnesotaBeekeeper 9 ай бұрын

Cost? Also trying to sublimate oxalic acid, I wonder how often that needs to be recharged? Thank you so much for covering this!

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

I will only have answers for that when I put my hands on the device. I am trying. :)

@brendawydeven2934 9 ай бұрын

I would definitely try that if I could figure out way to use in my top bar hives. I have them because I'm disabled and can't lift boxes. 2 questions.. do you always leave on hive and if so will the bees propolize it and close vents off medication comes out of?

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

I have no answer for your questions unfortunately.

@brendawydeven2934 9 ай бұрын

@@InsideTheHiveTV all the more reason to do a study :)

@dougm2174 9 ай бұрын

Do you have a link to some of their research?

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

No I don't. Apparently it is internal data that I cold only confirm with the beekeeper that played with the device. I lot of work a head of us.

@jomarleyduncan8575 9 ай бұрын

I'm a beekeeper from the Caribbean and would like to try this out at my apiary How can I email you Very Interested

@beebob1279 9 ай бұрын

I'd like to see something different than Amitrax (assuming it's the other name for Amitraz). But, here in the states we will need to get it approved which can take a while. Unlike the Covid vaccine that seems to be rushed through without proof of it's efficacy, it takes forever for new varroa treatments to be approved. Then each state has to approve it. When I used Amitraz four years ago there was no change in mite counts. I used another product to drop the mites. Two years ago I used it again and the same thing happened. No mite population drop.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

The company is aware of that. I am trying to coonvince them to use something else easier for regulation aproval. I also would prefer something else than Amitraz.

@noureddinemekdad6705 9 ай бұрын

♥♥♥

@scotthenderson4376 9 ай бұрын

I'd like to see the results with OA but then you cant use it due to the supers being on the hive.

@Jimbolt 9 ай бұрын

Ron Hoskins bees in swindon in the UK didn't use any pesticides to kill the varroa mite.they where resistance to it. His honey was lovely.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Great to hear someone is having some sucess out there. Thanks for sharing.

@stufarnham 9 ай бұрын

What’s the up front cost for the device (USD equivalent)? Even with long term savings that might be prohibitive. I hope it is not.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

I don't know. I am trying to bring the company representatives to the show for a livestream. Stay tunned.

@woodlandharvesthoneycompanyllc 9 ай бұрын

Yes you should keep covering it and run a test yourself. I believe it should be tested using OA and Thymol. Non-synthetic is the way we should be moving.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@PaulDosen 9 ай бұрын

Hi Humberto, this device sounds great, what's it actually called though? Take care and God bless - Paul

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

HiveMaster is the product’s name. Thanks

@w4447 9 ай бұрын

Love this video and I agree anything natural that works is better then synthetic. But my concern is how much does one device cost. For me a hobby bee keeper one or two at 50 bucks each is doable. But on a mass scale in commercial applications this device could get expensive quickly from innitial cost per unit. But still great to know and look forward to being able to buy one or two. Because as you know ALL VAROA MUST DIE A LONG PAINFUL DRAWN OUT DEATH.

@InsideTheHiveTV 9 ай бұрын

I don't know the cost and I hope the company is doing its homework to find out a good price foe the device.

@jeffpergande4387 8 ай бұрын

Where can we buy it?

@InsideTheHiveTV 8 ай бұрын

You can not yet.

@nkapiariesjeffbeezos796 9 ай бұрын

It’s still a bandaid so it just kicks the can down the road. It also delays our focus on better genetics for host resistance. It’s almost like how can the industry keep promoting mite treatments so beekeepers of all sizes are dependent on mitacides and psckage bees.

@gloriayoder5173 9 ай бұрын

Well said!

@TheMrnorules 9 ай бұрын

I can't understand how you can treat just with amitraz strips! I thinkt that you should compare more effective tretments like oxalic acid in no brood hives. In addition I am scared that if in the future they will implement low quantities of oxalic acid continuously repeated during the season, this would increase the possibility to breed an oxalic acid resistant varroa....

@Ittiz 9 ай бұрын

The issue I see with this is oxalic acid, and it's that oxalic acid is not approved to be used with honey supers and this releases doses constantly. It's a great idea, for any chemical that's approved with supers.

@susanrowland8915 9 ай бұрын

OA is now approved for use with honey supers in the US.

@Ittiz 9 ай бұрын

@@susanrowland8915 Oh really? That's great!

@davidsachs4883 9 ай бұрын

What do I think about the device: 1) it’s more effective now before the mites start breeding resistant strains, in the same way penicillin was effect against syphilis, but isn’t anymore . 2) if the device releases chemicals all year round this would be good for beekeepers concerned with pollination, for queen producers, and for those selling mics, but not honey producers. Don’t want extra chemicals in food honey

@BenyKarachun 9 ай бұрын

Mites evolve orders of magnitude slower than bacteria.

@davidsachs4883 9 ай бұрын

Perhaps mosquitos would have been a better analogy than syphilis. By the time people realized DDT was also destroying bird populations it was already having a decreasing affect on mosquitoe populations, as a small number resistant to the poison reproduced and replaced the non resistant who were now dead, and no longer reproducing. Fortunately in the USA the few years of low mosquitoe populations was sufficient to get rid of malaria here. Unfortunately we (as a species) didn’t get rid of malaria elsewhere and it remains a problem elsewhere.

@davidsachs4883 9 ай бұрын

I think another way of saying it would be this: Kill 99% of the mites and the 1% remaining are resistant. The following month only resistant mites will be reproducing. In only a few years the effectiveness will be highly reduced. Still a device that adds miticide periodically to match bee and mite reproduction cycles sounds more effective then most current methods.

@BenyKarachun 9 ай бұрын

@@davidsachs4883 It works within that timeframe for bacteria, that evolve WAY faster than mites. It will take hundreds of years for mites to even have the chance to become resistant. Evolution takes expenentionally more time the less frequent reproduction is.

@davidsachs4883 9 ай бұрын

Average lifespan for the mites is 27 days. In theory that would make 13 generations a year, but with winter shutdown more like 9-10. In a decade you’ll get 100 generations. Mites lay fewer eggs then mosquitoes and have a slightly longer lifecycle but we’ve seen insects evolve to counter pesticides surprisingly fast. Mites will probably be comparable, faster then some, slower then others

@brettellis1837 9 ай бұрын

Not 100% kill rate people what happens if the mites get a resistance to product used.??? Not if but when..

@walmartsocks 9 ай бұрын

🙏✝️♥️

@Aussicanhomestead2018 9 ай бұрын

We need to make it to help chicken owners kill mites and lice on chickens too.

@gloriayoder5173 9 ай бұрын

How about focusing on hygienic/ varroa resistant bees? I’d rather support those who are breeding bees for mite & disease resistance instead of buying more gadgets & more chemicals.