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F1sep and again a week latert--in other words, just two treatments.
riends,
1. To treat for tracheal mites, I saturated a paper towel w/
the cheapest vegetable oil I can find and place the sheet
on top of the frames between the two deep broodchambers
Hand repeat the process a week later. (This machine is acting funny &
I have no control over it. Must be at the other end.)
2. I don't use menthol crystals nor anything else and my bees come
out of the winter as well as anybody else's.
3. BTW, a strong colony will chew up the paper and cast it from the
hive w/in a week or the fuzzy cotton-like balls can be seen in the
pollen trap.
4. Does anybody know of a cheaper/easier way to get the slimy stuff
alll over tghe little ladies' bodies?
5. Have been using this method ever since the T-mite swanm across
the Rio Grande bout 10? years ago, about which time I was shocked to
lose 20 of 24 (yes, 20 of 24) colonies.
Cheers. Jack the B-man.]
John Iannuzzi PhD * "Singing masons building roofs
9772 Old Annapolis Rd * of gold." --Shakespeare
Ellicott City MD 21042 usa * 20 Italian colonies
[log in to unmask] * 3-1/2 decades in beedom
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