> > I would like to test some things with higher frequencies short of
> putting a frame of capped brood in the microwave oven for a ten second
> burst. Maybe there is a sweet spot of frequencies and power levels that
> would be disruptive to the mites life cycle but the bees would be
> indifferent to.


Dr Zach Huang experimented with microwaving mites.  He found that due to
their large surface to mass ratio, that microwaving did not kill them.
Bees or brood, due to having a much smaller surface to mass ratio would be
killed.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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