>..... Sticky Boards"... the less hives you have, the better they should look to you. Simple, repeatable inherently accurate results with no fiddling about required. Dump all the scrapings into denatured alcohol, count the mites that float. Mites counts from this method have known accuracy, as they have been verified by comparing mite drops to full-colony necroscopy.
For more on this subject see:
A comparative evaluation of sampling methods for Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) population estimation
Manuela R. Branco, et al.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00892192/document
Bill H
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