Charlie has questioned the degree to which immigration is related to the fall mite spike.  My revised modeling suggests that part of.


Fascinating thought!  Never occurred to me as a possibility!  Been thinking all along self induce brood breaks were more the issue.


Not sure what you mean by this? Can you explain your thought differently?


>the spike that I'm seeing is due to the low starting mite population, but it would still take a lot of immigration in my operation to obtain the high spikes that I >observed

Charles

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