mite away quick strip

[javah]

I put mite away quick strip on a hive that I have. It is a super and a medium

I put it on yesterday around 12:00 and checked it today and I have a few hundred dead bees and
a lot of brood is dead. I got scared and took one of the strips out. It was working on the varroa mites
a bunch of them dead. should I leave the one on or take it off or is this normal. 

[BjornBee]

The dead bees and brood are just coincidence. That could not possible be any fault of the treatments.

[javah]

what a smart a_ _  I realize that it is because of the treatment.

[Vance G]

I am curious, what was your temperature range during the time the maqs were in your hive?   What do the directions say regarding that?  Lord i hate mites!

[backyard warrior]

Mike looks like you have a new friend   :camp:

[BjornBee]

what a smart a_ _  I realize that it is because of the treatment.

Sorry, that was not directed at you.  ;)

But I must ask....was that what was supposed to happen?

[tefer2]

Javah, you can use the search function on this forum for miteaway quick strips You are not the first to have that very problem.

[rdy-b]

  slide the top box back 1/2 inch so the bees can regulate the treatment with air flow
as they need and after the 3rd day your bees will be through the hard side of the treatment
stay the course if its not real hot--RDY-B

[yourcousindoug]

javah,  I used them in Sept of last year and they are very hard on the bees, brood and queens.  Two of my hives emptied their bees where all the bees were on the outside of the hives.   My hives dropped in population strength where I was concerned that I just might not have enough bees for this past winter.   

After I treated for 7 days, I went back in to look for the queens and I couldn't find them and thought initially that the treatment killed them.   I do not have any trouble finding the queens.  I went back in about a week later and most of them were there and it really caused me to wonder how I missed them in the first place. 

I have a theory that the worker bees stopped taking care of the brood and didn't feed the emerging bees.  I also believe that they didn't feed the queen which caused her to skinny down.  Again, it is just my theory.
 
Even though I treated my hives and observed their impact, I probably would try them again, but do it in August instead of September in order to allow the bees enough time to regain their strength for overwintering.

[backyard warrior]

Id have to say the same thing the treatments emptied my hives. I lost a few queens and some of the hives it took the paint off the front of them.  The ones that recovered did so very well others i had queen issues supercedure and what not.  this year i am going to go about doing natural mite treatment removal of queen till brood hatches out then a treatment then re introduce the queen back into the hive after the treatment lots of work but will knock the hell out of the mites and wont hurt my good queens.  The treatments do work but you loose all your open and sealed brood.  Why not just take all the capped frames and freeze them thats where the majority of the mites are then give them back for em to clean out like they would if they recieved the  mite away treatment this way you wont loose your queens and the open brood survives instead of being killed with the capped brood. ????  :)  For those not sure about this topic its best to do tests on your hives to check for mite loads before doing treatments those hives that have low mite count dont need treatment and many people do drone removal.  Open up some capped drone brood if you dont find many mites in these frames give em back dont freeze them after all the ones with the low mite count is the drones you want breeding with your virgin queens :)

[javah]

Thanks for the help. I hate seeing all the dead bees
And brood. I did look for the queen in all the dead
Bees and did not see her. 

The temp. Here is 50 to 65

[backyard warrior]

I agree with the idea but id say august is a bit too late from what experts are saying the middle of summer june or early july mite loads are very high in the middle of the summer right after the big boom of raising the bee population in early spring for the main flow,when the bees populate so do the mites. Problem is the bees stop rearing lots of brood after spring and the mites keep producing at full rate id consider checking your mite load at the end of the main flow for mite numbers before just going ahead and doing treatments.  Waiting till august isnt such a good idea knock them down earlier so they dont dominate the hive and infect your bees before they raise the winter bees.  
Chris

[backyard warrior]

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I probably would try them again, but do it in August instead of September in order to allow the bees enough time to regain their strength for overwintering.