From: "Bob Harrison"  Any other suggestions from the list on methods to use
SOE without removing
> every frame and spraying bees or a better application method other than
> simply spraying from a common one gallon sprayer (such as an electrostatic
> sprayer as Brent suggested)?"

This is ground evidently well explored by those doing the work but so
desparately important that I will call up one other principle perhaps
already discarded.  Fix a gadget permanently to the front of each hive that
covers the entrance with a curtain of fine wicks connected to a header tank
, so that when newly emerged bess (carrying varoa ) take first flight they
all get some SOE.    Aim: an ineffcient,  slow but persistent treatment that
might prevent mites ever building up a large population.

Robin Dartington

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