While finishing sugar-dusting [my girls are kicking!], I could see why
this method, with its proven efficacy, has failed catch up with the rest
of the industry: tedium infinitum.  Although it is too late for me to
conduct any experiment, I wonder if the following three different methods
will significantly fluctuate the efficacy of dusting: frame by frame
dusting, top bar dusting, and blasting the dust at the entrance.

If blasting at the entrance does not reduce its effectiveness, I would
like to use my leaf-blower, late in the evening when all the bees are back
home, and blast the dust into the hive at the entrance while sifting the
dust in a stainless steel double sieve, one pair of which I have been
using.  After all, the whole purpose of dusting is to clog up the suction
cups of the mites with the particles measuring about 5 microns.  If it
works, one does not have to worry about dust clumps since only small puffs
will fall down and free-float and circulate inside the hive in a circular
air flow.  If proven effective, one can finish a hive in thirty seconds.
I will be monkeying with this delivery in three weeks, as the new
generations of mites emerge.  What do you say?

Yoon

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