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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: Caleb Haynes <calebthaynes AT gmail.com>, Brad Kosiba <bradkosiba AT gmail.com>
- Cc: Orange County Beekeepers Association <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:54:16 -0400
Re: "I actually painted my two hives with never wet when I was in
NC and never had more than a handful of beetles at a time": I
never have more than a handful of beetles at a time either and
don't use special paint or traps. But I do curse at the beetles I
see... could that be it? Maybe they get all depressed and leave.
Or maybe correlation isn't causation. Or maybe the tips <here>
help. The You-Tube demonstration would have been a worthwhile exercise if the guy had used a side-by-side control. As it is, all we have to go on is his personal assurance that the beetles would have climbed onto the top black surface if given a chance. Really? That's easy enough to demonstrate if true... why not show us the difference? Just do the same test with a separate box, exactly the same as the first one but without the metal strips. I'm not convinced those beetles were interested in going anywhere, and that feeling was reinforced by the guy having to poke them repeatedly to get them to move at all. FYI, the metal strips, cut to purpose with wooden rims, are
available for sale as a commercial product at bee supply stores.
The ones I'm familiar with don't have the stay-wet paint on them.
But the directions on those say the rims are the magic factor, no
need for paint. So don't the rims work without paint? Or do we
need rims and paint? Or do we need rims, paint and the
next magical add-on? It makes me wonder. Great ideas are only that without confirmation. And even when
great ideas actually work, that doesn't mean they'll work at my
house! Randall On 4/25/2017 9:08 PM, Caleb Haynes
wrote:
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[ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/24/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Brad Kosiba, 04/25/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/25/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Randall Austin, 04/26/2017
- Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan, David Fruch, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Randall Austin, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/26/2017
- Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan, David Fruch, 04/26/2017
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- Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan, Caleb Haynes, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Randall Austin, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Randall Austin, 04/26/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Caleb Haynes, 04/25/2017
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Re: [ocba] Man with a hive beetle plan,
Brad Kosiba, 04/25/2017
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