Well, I checked my bees and all are perfect. It is time for me to let all the beekeeping world know the secrets of successful beekeeping. Guaranteed to keep your bees mite free as well as many other advantages. The process has been scientifically studied and the results of ten years of research is included. I started the process over ten years ago. It was a serendipitous discovery. I was tending my bees and noticed mites crawling from the hive. There were lines of them, single file, marching from the hives. I checked the interior of the hive and nothing was out of the norm. Using scientific methods, I looked for the obvious and there was only one thing in my environment that was different. New neighbors had moved in up the hill and they were playing sixties music at full volume. I got a decibel meter from the codes officer and determined they were off-scale. Maybe the loudness of the noise was driving the mites from the hive. But, as the summer progress, even though they continued to play the music at high volume, the mites did not leave the hive like they did the first day. I experimented. The BeeGees did not work. Bob Denver was a bust. Eventually I stumbled on Bob Dylan singing cum by ya . The mites left the hive in droves. And it did not matter what the volume level was. It worked even when near mute. So I recorded it on a endless loop tape and have been playing it in the apiary ever since. And what has happened? The Berlin wall went down. Communism fell. Bill Clinton was elected. The mites left the hive. All because I played the Bob Dylan tape, continuously every summer. It works! Guaranteed. You know it is true because it is on the Internet. Happy April first. Bill Truesdell Bath, ME