>
> >My modeling suggests that a typical colony in your area on the first of
> >May, exhibiting an alcohol was of only 5 mites per half cup of bees (a
> >perhaps unalarming infestation rate of under 2%) would contain slightly
> >over 1600 mites (I'd expect that colony, if untreated, to collapse in
> >October).
>
>
I sometimes question the accuracy of mite counts in the spring turnover
period.  Doesn't the disproportionate number of mites in brood vs phoretic
mites during the first rounds of brood rearing give a falsely low mite
level?

Adam
Barrie, ON

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