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Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:34:14 -0400 |
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In the last week or two there was a post on SHB, turned out to be a great post. It mentioned shells and exoskeletons from larve. Up until this year SHB have been a small time pest, any weak or dying hives were quickly taken over. I had assumed and observed it seems the SHB were preying on weak hives.
Last night I moved hives into pumpkins. Pumpkins here are interesting because the dirt around the hives is clean, no grass or weeds to hide debris. Two of the skids were from a yard I had lost a hive or two earlier this year. As mentioned Beetles moved into the hives quickly (I cleaned them up) I assumed I had lost the hives to chilled brood.
The hives on the pallets were all strong hives, 2 deeps and supers chocked full of bees 100k or so in each.
On the ground in front of 2 of them are piles of larvae exoskeletons. and opening the huves there is easily a cupful of SHB in each.
apparently at some level the SHB switch from scavengers to predators. these guys are voraciously eating larve. That is a bit of a new development in thinking for me. Up until now a cpl here and there were just normal and annoying. Time to change the thinking.
Trying some MAQS on one to see if it will drive out the beetles.
Charles
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