> > > "Although" suggests that you expected to see no mites. More
thoughts on why you chose the word (as you do most carefully in most
instances) - "although" < < <

You are right.  I do try to choose my words.  When I write for
publication and my website, I write and rewrite, then go back the next
day and pick up what I missed the first day, but on these posts to
BEE-L, you'll often find small errors.  Nonetheless, this was not one of
those -- even if I could have separated the treatments better in that
sentence.

The reason I used that word here is that these small samples are very
approximate.  Not seeing any mites in samples this size is more
meaningful -- to me -- than finding one, or more.  That one mite could
mean many things.

If we had seen none, then we could have more easily assumed that the
treatments had been effective, but with this mite showing up in a small
sample, the possibility of resistance to coumaphos, one or more hives
having been missed in  treatment, etc. have to be considered, and more
monitoring to see what is happening is needed sooner than if we did not
see any.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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