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Yesterday my bees (bar one colony at home) got their mid-winter sweet and sour treat. Previously I've used the 4.5% oxalic acid dihydrate recipe (which some call 3.2% oxalic as that would be the weight/volume strength if people used anhydrous oxalic acid). This really confuses people. There has been a lot of stuff posted in various places recently and not all of it is right.

The standard recipe - as has been posted elsewhere on this site - is:

75g + 1000g sugar + 1000ml ...

• - Shake the bees from a central frame in the super onto plastic sheeting
• - Fill approx 30g bees (that is about 300) into a labelled container
• - After killing the bees by freezing them weigh the sample of bees
• - Let the bees soak for at least 15 minutes in soapy water (use washing up liquid) and shake thoroughly.
• - Separate the varroa from the bees buy rinsing through a double sieve. Or use a course metal mesh (too catch the bees) over a coffee filter paper
• - count the varroa / 10g

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