Keep healthy colonies through every season — chemicalfree.
For decades the answer to Varroa was acid in the hive. Two things broke that answer — and no new chemical fixes either of them.
If the first sealed brood frames are treated, the foundation of the problem is eliminated.
1 untreated mite at the beginning of the season results in 32 additional mites after 5 month (at the end of the season).
Capture, remove and treat mites in the Duplex-Framebox and form new colonies with the treated frames.
You are able to respond to possible reinfestation at any time.
There is a way to break both problems at once — and it isn't a chemical. It's heat.
The whole method lives in one narrow band of heat. Hold the brood there and the mite dies while the pupae sail through unharmed.
Varroa and bee pupae have different heat tolerances. Push the temperature into the gap between them — lethal to the mite, comfortable for the brood — and the parasite simply can't survive it. The treatment damages the mites so severely that they die within 24 hours.
No chemical means nothing for the mite to evolve resistance to. The physics doesn't change from one season to the next.
Beekeepers think in seasons, so the plan rides your calendar. Three timed interventions knock the mite load back down before it can ever build into a threat.
Treat the capped brood. This removes the brood mites, so they can no longer reproduce. 80% of the colony's mites before the summer build-up even begins.
By confining the queen to two brood frames in the Duplex Frame Box, Varroa mites in the hive are drawn into these frames, where they become trapped in the capped brood cells. After 24 days, the frames can be removed and heat-treated, eliminating the mites and their offspring — a chemical-free reset to near-zero mites by mid-July.
Drifting bees from heavily infested neighbouring hives can introduce hundreds of new mites. A final treatment brings the load back to near zero before overwintering.
One system, three moves. No chemicals, nothing for the mite to resist — and healthy colonies going into every winter.
Download the treatment planThe chemical-free heat-treatment method behind this plan won gold at Apimondia 2019 — the world's largest beekeeping congress — for its published, residue-free results.
“When I first inspect my bee colonies in spring and assume there is already Varroa in a frame, I can take that frame out and put it inside the Varroa Controller. In that way, I can get rid of the Varroa mites in spring. I put all threated frames back into the colony and I know that the hive is free from the mites.”
“When I treat in September, I have hives free of mites in October. And that´s a big advantage for the bees. Especially as they go for wintering very late. The best thing is, I don´t need any chemicals - this treatment is very valuable for the bees.”
“I have never had any losses since I started to use the Varroa Controller and I am very happy with it.”
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