>I noticed that the Maqs "looked" different. I'm used to smelling the
> formic acid as soon as the plastic tub is open but that didn't happen. They
> also looked whiter and drier, which after inquiring about it, was told is
> normal for freshly produced strips.
>

White and dry is how they are supposed to look.  Off-white and slimy with
that strong formic smell is how they get when they have either expired or
experience temperature abuse.  When the paper wrap breaks down like that,
the 3 day treatment becomes a 1 day flash treatment and that is when it can
be really hard on queens.   A single strip treatment in late summer early
fall here seems to only knock the mites back for a couple of weeks.  After
about two weeks they tend to be rate back where they were before.  Two one
strip treatments does not equal one two strip treatment.

Adam
Barrie, ON

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