On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, David Eyre wrote:
> The idea of using a trap, is to force the queen to lay drone brood
> at a time of year i.e. early or late season, when she would not
> normally be laying drone brood.
Not necessarily. A common method here it to constrain the queen three
times in succession onto different combs. This forces the varroa to
lay in the _only cells available for capping_ over that period,
whether worker or drone!
Regards,
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