✨𝚂𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚎✨It’s super gross but chickens love them! The Small Hive Beetle *Aethina tumida* is just another hive pest that honeybees have to manage. My best advice (just a few tips): keep strong colonies, manage SHB with unscented Swiffer sheets, don’t allow colonies to become queenlees or stay queenless for long, don’t leave extra space in your hives, and remove burr comb since SHB’s can hide in the wax. | Nooga Honey Pot

✨ SHB Facts for Beekeepers ✨ Small hive beetles -Aethina tumida- don’t kill strong hives, they destroy weak ones Adult beetles hide in dark crevices of the hive, using the bees’ own bodies as shields. Beetle larvae are the real problem — they slime the comb, ferment the honey, and make everything smell like rotten oranges A single female SHB can lay up to 2,000 eggs inside a hive. Bees can trap beetles, but they can’t kill them. SHB evolved tough exoskeletons bees can’t sting through. Beetles st