Colin and I will be doing our routine Apiary work on Sunday and not as is customary on Saturday. We'll be carrying out Varroa treatment and winter feeding. We've treated all our hives including the Top Bar Hive with Api Life Var. The method of deploying the strips in a conventional hive is to place a piece in the four corners of the hive on top of the brood frames but this method would not work in the top bar because the frames are closed up with no spaces between them so we inserted the thymol impregnated strip into a net envelope and pinned this high up on the mid-hive divider board and as far away from the brood as possible. At the second application in our National hives we noticed that some of the "biscuits" had disappeared. The instructions on the packet say that you should remove the exhausted pieces when applying new strips. This begs the question "how important is it to find the old bits"?
Colin and I are going to Nepal for a month at the end of September. If I can I'll make some Blog postings from there but before I can do that I'll have to find out how to do it "on the hoof" so to speak!
Barry
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