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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DISEASE & PEST CONTROL => Topic started by: rast on April 02, 2008, 10:14:22 PM

Title: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: rast on April 02, 2008, 10:14:22 PM
 With temps running in the 80's, is that too hot to treat with powdered sugar? Do just the lower brood hive?
Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: Angi_H on April 02, 2008, 10:43:32 PM
no it is not to hot. Treat each hive body. I use mediums and will be treating tomorrow I will treat each med. and place them back togather. I will also check frames and make sure all is well and see how they have gone with drawing out the frames.

Angi
Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: Understudy on April 02, 2008, 11:05:37 PM
No it is not to hot.

You may treat with powdered sugar.

This is why you live in Florida and not somewhere else. :)

Sincerely,
Brendhan

Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: annette on April 03, 2008, 12:23:12 AM
I was wondering why you treat all the supers separately Angi?  I did the same thing last summer and some members here told me I was doing to much work taking the whole hive apart. It also seemed to really disturb the hive everytime I removed all the supers. And I was dusting every week.

They said just powder dust the top super and it falls down to the other supers.That is what I am doing now. Just the top supers.

Just asking because I want to know what your experience has been with this.

Thanks
Annette

Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: Michael Bush on April 03, 2008, 07:45:02 AM
>Do just the lower brood hive?

Do just the boxes with brood. This could be more than one box.
Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: annette on April 03, 2008, 12:48:38 PM
Michael

So what you are saying is. If there is 2 brood boxes then take apart those 2 boxes and dust separately?? Or just dust the top of those 2 boxes???

Thanks
Annette
Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: rast on April 03, 2008, 08:42:59 PM
 I told my wife it was OK to give my bees some sugar this weekend and she blew a kiss at them said to let her know if they needed more. :)
Title: Re: Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar
Post by: Michael Bush on April 03, 2008, 08:47:12 PM
>So what you are saying is. If there is 2 brood boxes then take apart those 2 boxes and dust separately?? Or just dust the top of those 2 boxes???

You might get by with just the top one, but if I was desperate enough to treat, which I'm not, I'd do them both.