> The biggest help for me came from Mel Disselkoen's web site.

That is http://www.mdasplitter.com/ for those who may not have been there.

I have been intrigued by his claims, but when we subjected one of them to 
observation here, although not too robustly, we concluded that, no, all the 
proretic varroa do not pile into the first brood raised after a broodless 
period and kill themselves as Mel suggests.

(There must be something else happening to explain the reduction in varroa 
after a broodless period, and perhaps that something is different 
thermoregulation when broodless and also different distribution of the 
various cohorts, including their favourite hosts through the hive, but I 
digress...)

His methods, if followed and if successful should have resulted in a far 
larger increase in your hive numbers, so I am curious which of his ideas you 
have followed and which proved out -- and how.  Perhaps increase was not 
your goal?

I am genuinely interested because he claims huge increase while still 
producing honey and some of us have never come anywhere near his claims 
while following other methods.  I have been tempted to try it his way.

Have you purchased his nucs and followed his methods?

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