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I admin a bee forum on (horrors !) Facebook. Recently, many mite treatment threads have been interrupted by promotion of the recently patented electric-heater // PID controller device patented by "Beehive Thermal Industries"
The device heats the colony to 106 F for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, and reportedly kills many Varroa. I am familiar with some research papers going back into the 1990's on thermal limits to Varroa, so the concept is not in doubt. I have reviewed a google search for the device --- photographs on one forum show plastic mite ridden frames "before" and wood framed brood "after" -- a discrepancy that makes me instantly suspicious.
I have been unable to find any independent test of the particular device now being word-of-mouth, social media promoted. Reading between the lines, it appears the social posters are purchasing marketing territories, and much of their enthusiasm is colored by entrepeneurial self-interest.
I don't want to arbitrarily shut down what might be a viable treatment alternative, but I am loathe to let a "chinchilla farm" style pyramid marketing fad explode all over the forum.
Can anyone point me to a balanced review.
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