I have 9 hives and 2 nucs in my apiary. Today I opened the weakest of the lot and found 2 small hive beetles. Smashed one while the other eluded me. I have zero experience with these and up till now I had not worried at all about them thinking I was a bit far north for these to be too much of a problem.
Before I have a heart attack - please tell me what the proper treatment is for:
1) removal of the beetles from the hive with them
2) insuring they don't get into my other hives (preventative treatment)
The hive with the beetles is a hive containing the frames from a cut out where likely I brought them from the cutout house to my yard.
Help please. Is this a horrible problem or one that can be managed?
Ugh!
David
I see them in my hives now and then and smash them with my hive tool if I can. As long as the bee population in a hive is sufficiently dense, I don't think SHB are likely to become serious problems at our latitude.
Count your blessings and relax.
Finding 4 or 5 each inspection and killing most of them is a healthy and happy scenario.
Finding 10 to 50 in a hive is a ""find a solution"" scenario.
Quote from: iddee on July 07, 2013, 10:33:06 PM
Count your blessings and relax.
Finding 4 or 5 each inspection and killing most of them is a healthy and happy scenario.
Finding 10 to 50 in a hive is a ""find a solution"" scenario.
Ditto- and if you want to brush up on shb knowledge check out the pest section of the forum. Here is a thread with 60 replies:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,29223.0.html (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,29223.0.html)
i'm more surprised when i don't find a few. crush every one you can.