Small Hive Beetle; having to battle: this year, beetles are plentiful.

[van from Arkansas]

Mr Van You are a scientist, I am very pleased to have you here and honored. I will ask you a what if question, What if, someone were to catch X number of hive beetles, mark them as a queen and simply turn them loose at the entrance of a hive and wait a reasonable amount of time, vacuum up all beetles left on the outside opening; then and only then, opening the hive in a secured area where no beetles can come or leave the experiment area, and simply search for beetles inside the hive, especially looking for marked beetles? Wouldn't this tell where Molly hid the peaches on this product, the Guardian?
Thanks, Phillip

Well, Mr. Ben, that an idea for sure.

We will find out soon enough if the entrance guard, the guardian really works.  The small hive beetle, shb, is proving to be a real pest.  Australia spent some bucks on researching the shb by trying to isolate shb pheromones, to no success unfortunately.  I had high hopes.

I?m still using: my thumb, my hive tool, freeze spray or anything else except poison to kill the shb.  Soon the weather will change and start of Fall I will attempt to kill every beetle in my hives so no beetles make through the winter.  Despite my best efforts some will winter over.

I have seen my bees attack, literally jump on and viciously attack trying to sting the shb.  The shb always scampers away from the bee unharmed.  Those little critters are armor plated and sting proof so all my bees can do is heard the shb in a beetle jail.

Cheers
Van