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>This also causes the first post-caging generation of bees to emerge into the care of elderly, unpracticed nurse bees.
Look at the bee math and compare Randy's method below, to the effect of a swarm which gives a longer brood break (spit ball 20-21 days)
>MITE CONTROL USING A 14-DAY BROOD BREAK WITH OXALIC DRIBBLE
•Day 1: Confine the queen to one “varroa trap” frame, using queen excluder
dividers.
•Day 14: Release the queen.
•Day 21: Remove the varroa trap frame and dribble the colony with oxalic
acid.
The hive is full of bees that have never nursed and the nurse bee to larva ratio is much higher. We often hear talk of problems that go away with the flow, likelihood it's not magic incoming nectar, it's the reduction in brood rearing while the colony focus on the flow skewing the larva to nurse ratio and allowing them to get control of the situation.
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