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?> >unless you are restricted to "soft" treatments, in which case, you are 
screwed.  (That is the scientific term).

> Then I've been scientifically screwed for over ten years...but still in 
> business, and providing top-grade colonies to almonds, and selling large 
> numbers of nucs each spring.

Right.  Soft treatments can work, but let's keep my words in context and not 
just snip half the argument.

I was *not* saying what the snip appears to make me say.  What I was saying 
is that soft treatments are known to have problems bringing down high loads 
and we were looking at a borderline case and a probable disaster in 
progress.

Specifically, in this case, I was wondering about the hive at 18 mites 
washed (6% is reportedly the upper limit for saving a hive with soft 
treatments) but as far as being screwed, was speaking of the yard with a 10% 
average in mid-fall.  Obviously, since this is an average, some of the hives 
were higher and some lower.  IMO, most are out of the zone for salvation 
with soft methods.

Here is what I actually said:

> In the latter case, what are we to think about the one at 18?  We know 
> what to think about the yard at 10%.  Easy decision -- unless you are 
> restricted to "soft" treatments, in which case, you are screwed.  (That is 
> the scientific term).

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