This year was progressing rather nicely as far as the small hive beetles go. We hadn’t seen more then 4 total in all our hives. In the last two weeks they have brought along all their brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and everyone else they know. It has been an absolute explosion of them. More than we have had to deal with the last two to three years. We have gone into emergency mode as far as installing beetle remedies. Mainly we use beetle blasters and batting squares. We’ll see how they work and if we can reign in this invasion.