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- From: "Thomas Grizzle" <griz AT mindspring.com>
- To: <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [ocba] SHB Success?
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:33:26 -0400
Hey Y’all, Just wanted to follow up to an earlier email. I complained of Small Hive Beetle populations being high and was recommended an SHB trap that hangs on the side of a frame. I installed two on one frame next one outside edge and left it for two weeks. I baited it with a piece of apple and the reservoir was filled about 1/3 full with soybean oil, per instructions that came with the traps. Soybean oil supposedly confuses tracheal mites too (don’t know the data on that, just hearsay). Today I entered the hive to check and replace the traps (I have one hive only, and purchased 4 traps…they are very cheap…all four for <10$) and found the SHB still present in the hive itself, but the two traps when removed and examined had about a hundred dead SHBs. I did not do a thorough examination of the hive, wanting to get in and out as fast as I could, but there are definitely still some running around in the hive and I do not expect that to ever change, but I think they are doing some good. I do expect that between the bees themselves chasing the SHBs and these two traps that I am making it a living hell inside the hive for these SHBs! I know, all these SHBs have mommies who love them…too bad! Tom |
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[ocba] SHB Success?,
Thomas Grizzle, 09/20/2012
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Re: [ocba] SHB Success?,
Jennifer Hall, 09/20/2012
- Re: [ocba] SHB Success?, Thomas Grizzle, 09/20/2012
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Re: [ocba] SHB Success?,
Jennifer Hall, 09/20/2012
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