I put patties with oil on two hives. Both absconded.
At 03:15 AM 4/8/97 +0000, you wrote:
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>From: Brian R Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
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>I am just wanting to know if any one had any and what type of success with
>essential oils later fall and over winter.
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>I overwintered 2 hives: 1 with patties with oils, and 1 without. The hive
>that had oils is doing wonderfully and has no signs of varroa. But the one
>without is very slow out of the gate here and does have some mites in the
>drone brood.
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>Thanks for comments.
>
>B. Tucker
>Polo MO
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