> However, in going through all my yards in seven different locations, I
> have yet to see a varroa mite this spring!!  I basically pull out drone
> brood (the easiest ones to get to are those exposed between brood
> chambers), and in looking over hundreds of them I didn't see a mite.
> Every spring for some years now there have always been mites, usually at
> least one per cell and often many more.  I haven't seen much on the list
> about currnet mite populations until this post.  What are others seeing
> this year?
 
I'm curious:  To those reporting no mites, what treatments are being used?
 
Is anyone *not* using Apistan, and finding no mites in hives that had them
previously?
 
Allen