Formic Pro Mite Treatment is such a convenient and effective way to treat varroa mites on honeybees. Placement in the hive just takes minutes. When you use a full dose, it will kill mites under the cell cap where they reproduce. When the treatment is complete the material will be dry and safe to handle, and it can be composted. Please continue reading below for detailed instructions on two treatment options. Option One: 14-day treatment Lay two strips, staggering them so they lay flat and across the full width of the lower brood chamber, in the heart of the brood rearing zone, with approximately 2 inches between strips and 4 inches between the ends of the brood chamber and the outer edges of the strips. Follow the Application Options pictogram. Add a honey super with frames at time of application if necessary to provide adequate space for strong colonies to expand, or if a honey flow is expected. It is acceptable to have queen excluders in place. Allow a minimum of one month between applications. Do not mix with other miticides. Option Two: 20-day treatment On Day+0: Lay one strip across the frames in the center of the lower brood chamber, in the heart of the brood rearing zone. Follow the Application Options pictogram. Add a honey super with frames at time of application if necessary to provide adequate space for strong colonies to expand, or if a honey flow is expected. It is acceptable to have queen excluders in place. On Day+10: Remove and replace with a second single strip. The application of the second strip may be delayed if weather conditions at day +10 do not allow for treatment. The second strip must be applied as soon as weather conditions permit to complete treatment. VENTILATION Remove entrance reducers. Bottom board entrances must be full width of the hive, minimum height ½ inch or 1.3cm and fully open for entire treatment. If colonies have permanently reduced entrances, set back the upper brood box by ½ inch or 1.3cm, or insert wedges between the bottom box and the bottom board to create a full entrance. *Close off screen bottom boards for maximum efficacy. Do not consider open screen bottom boards as ‘ventilation’; bees draw in air through the bottom entrance to ventilate the colony. TEMPERATURES Optimal treatment temperatures for Formic Pro are between 50°-85°F/10°-29.5°C.
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I'm a hobby beekeeper of 5 years. I'm also a father of 5 boys, work full-time, as does my wife, and have a myriad of duties that come with all of that. If after getting mite counts on my colonies I see they need treatment but know I am too busy to proper oxalic acid vaporization rounds for all my colonies, I use Formic Pro.
It's easy to use and has always knocked down my verroa mite counts to acceptable or non-detectable levels.
FWIW, while there are other things I do to help my bees overwinter here in Michigan, I have not lost a colony in my 5 years of beekeepign while over wintering any time I've used Formic Pro in combination with my standard overwintering practices.
Formic Pro Seems To Work! Formic Pro is easy to apply & offers two choices for treatment strength. The drawback is that it should only be applied when temperatures drop under 85 degrees. That means that in our location, while mite counts are escalating dramatically in the fall , I’m waiting weeks for temperature to decline.
Wish I could add negative stars. All 3 of my thriving hives that I have had for over 2 years are now dead. Followed instructions and did everything as instructed. Don’t buy this product unless you want dead bees!
Just treated per instructions for the 2 week method. First this stuff is super strong. My bees couldn’t get out fast enough. I am praying they survive. I pulled one strip from every hive and both from my smallest but I think that one is a loss. I won’t use this again. I will recheck tomorrow and May pull the other strip if I see lots of dead bees or worse, they all leave. One bee I found dying had turned almost white.