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<blockquote data-quote="NatureAlley" data-source="post: 10206" data-attributes="member: 91"><p>That is such a pity, John. I find it difficult to comment without having all the ins and outs. I can only say with oxalic acid strips/staples it is important to keep an eye on things. It is but a weak poison so circumstances need to be optimised especially for them to sit over the brood area. That changes with time... the queen doesn't seem too keen to lay eggs in emptied cells covered by the strips, so it is sometimes required to move the strips. I have always been wondering about the effect of the bee space being cut roughly in half by the strips, but don't know if and how that matters or what to do about it. It is the same for other strips. Would it be good to keep frames a bit further apart when strips hang over them? I have not tried.</p><p>The bees in one of my hives chewed through all the strips I had introduced (4/brood box) within 10 days - 2wks. So fresh ones were introduced and the mite numbers dropping on the sticky board went up dramatically. I check every day and collect the data, also note how much strip debris there is on the sticky board. If there is a lot for a while and then gets less... time to put fresh strips in. I should have put double ones in or perhaps even triple layer ones. Oh well, there is always the next inspection. But in 3 years of OA/GLY strip treatments the bees seem to be ferociously chewing in the first weeks after introduction of the treatment.</p><p>Another concern: the bees are good at pulling (single layer) strips off the frames. For that reason I put a half-length popsicle stick through slits in the strips (perpendicular, at the point where they sit over the frames). With the wood part exposed under the strip pressed into a bit of the ever present beeswax patches, that will them in place.</p><p></p><p>Added later: The less dense the population of bees is, the less the bees are exposed to the strips as there is more room to maneuvre inside. So keeping the number of boxes to the minimum required is not a bad idea. </p><p></p><p>I hope you can still save the hive. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NatureAlley, post: 10206, member: 91"] That is such a pity, John. I find it difficult to comment without having all the ins and outs. I can only say with oxalic acid strips/staples it is important to keep an eye on things. It is but a weak poison so circumstances need to be optimised especially for them to sit over the brood area. That changes with time... the queen doesn't seem too keen to lay eggs in emptied cells covered by the strips, so it is sometimes required to move the strips. I have always been wondering about the effect of the bee space being cut roughly in half by the strips, but don't know if and how that matters or what to do about it. It is the same for other strips. Would it be good to keep frames a bit further apart when strips hang over them? I have not tried. The bees in one of my hives chewed through all the strips I had introduced (4/brood box) within 10 days - 2wks. So fresh ones were introduced and the mite numbers dropping on the sticky board went up dramatically. I check every day and collect the data, also note how much strip debris there is on the sticky board. If there is a lot for a while and then gets less... time to put fresh strips in. I should have put double ones in or perhaps even triple layer ones. Oh well, there is always the next inspection. But in 3 years of OA/GLY strip treatments the bees seem to be ferociously chewing in the first weeks after introduction of the treatment. Another concern: the bees are good at pulling (single layer) strips off the frames. For that reason I put a half-length popsicle stick through slits in the strips (perpendicular, at the point where they sit over the frames). With the wood part exposed under the strip pressed into a bit of the ever present beeswax patches, that will them in place. Added later: The less dense the population of bees is, the less the bees are exposed to the strips as there is more room to maneuvre inside. So keeping the number of boxes to the minimum required is not a bad idea. I hope you can still save the hive. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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