BeeGym

[GRIZZLY]

Anyone got any experience of this piece of "apparatus".

[Neils]

I'd never heard of it until now. Their website is: http://www.beegym.co.uk/index.html.

I'm not convinced yet, and £12 a go is a bit steep.

[Jon]

Gavin showed us videos of Bee Gym when he spoke at our association meeting.
Must be on commission.

[The Drone Ranger]

There was a video on here posted by Gavin

[janeoh]

If I thought it would help bees to remove varroa, I would be willing to pay that. I only have two hive so not too much to invest. I would be interested to hear people's experience of them.

[fatshark]

1. Website seems to stress that it's not fully tested and most, if not all, of the case studies appear uncontrolled.
2. £12 buys a lot of oxalic acid.
3. There's a nice study published in PLoS One recently by Tom Seeley that (indirectly) shows the benefit of in-season brood breaks for Varroa control. Randy Oliver (ScientificBeekeeping.com) is a strong advocate of splits to "knock the snot out of mite levels" (his words).

I'd save my £24 and use it to buy the nuc box/spare equipment to use a method with more evidence of the benefits for mite control.

Or I'd just buy a few kilograms of OA ...