Clare Densley, the apiarist at Buckfast Abbey, is, in association with 
Devon's Bee Vet, using applications of these mites and checking and 
recording mitefall and comparing it with as many untreated controls.  
Shown graphically, the treated colonies have an undulating horizontal 
line, whereas the graph for the controls soars steeply.  There is, as 
yet, no completely satisfactory way of administering the mites as 
through gravity/instinct they soon make their way down through to the 
floor.  Naturally they would live in the leaf litter or nesting 
material of poultry.

Chris

  

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