Central va. 20 hives. Apivar treatment in August. I fed two rounds of syrup
and now have winter patties on as "insurence" mostly for me to sleep good
at night.

Ever since going away from "other" forms of treatment to apivar, my annual
fall/winter losses went from 30 and 50 percent to less than 10 percent and
in some years zero percent loss. Nothing else changed in my practice.

My opinion only, but successful beekeeping involves three things I tell new
bees, proper inspections, which lead to proper feeding and proper effective
consistent mite treatment. Those are what I see seperates the successful
new beekeeper from the failed new beekeeper. Along with the tenured ones...
loose one of those three and it seems to make for a rough year...

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