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Re: Mites in drone brood
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" Our estimate from the sampling was that there
> would be at most maybe 10 mites typically trapped in each of the drone
> frames (maybe even 20 accounting for those that we overlooked)"


I recently took a whole frame of drone comb out of hive, and tore apart all
the comb looking for mites. I first started by pulling each frozen pupa put
of its cell, then followed with an alcohol wash (till no more mites came
out) on those pupa's to see how many mites I missed. I don't have any solid
data, but just from observation I would say I found another 50% of mites on
the drone comb this way.

Roy Crumrine in CA


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