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Small hive beetles like this heat
Small hive beetles, Aethina tumida, thrive in Florida's heat and humidity. Keeping Bees in Florida says so. The Central Florida management calendar tells keepers to monitor and control them in August, and again from October through December.
They are a pest of messy, weak, or overheated colonies. This page is not a list of traps. The species paper is the small hive beetle paper / the small hive beetle paper. Name it. Read it on EDIS when the page is up.
Central Florida calendar beats
- **August.** Monitor and control small hive beetles. Feed if the colony is light. Ventilate.
- **October through December.** Watch beetles again as stores and brood change.
- **Year-round in this heat.** Keeping Bees in Florida: Florida humidity favors SHB. Weak or overheated boxes lose that fight.
Control options live on the small hive beetle paper species page and on product labels. Names stay on the label. This page does not pick a brand.