Peter Borst wrote:
  I have tried looking at "the whole picture". You say that
 your bees have low mite counts. (What are the counts?)

 Reply:
 Not enough to be worth the time for the USDA to officially
 do another official mite count test since 1997.

I don't get it. No one has checked your numbers for 5 years? You are not
doing any mite counts yourself? I thought most beekeepers were checking
their hives for mites. It isn't very hard to do.

If you are "studying" a method of controlling mites (biological or
otherwise) you must have some evidence of mite levels you can give,
otherwise all you are saying is "we don't have many mites" and it means very
little.

pb