If anyone has responeded to my question  please resend as it looks like I       
just became active and should be able to see the mail from the Bee-L list.      
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> I am new to this list as I have just started keeping bee's (two new           
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> If this is a rehashing of old topics I apologize.                             
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> I understand that a patty can be made to keep down tracial mites using        
> wintergreen.  My question is would one made with pepermint work just as       
> well or better or not at all?  If it does work does anyone have a recipe      
> for this?