Hi Greg
        I use a combination of honey/water mixed with pepperment oil, throughout
the season because it is not a chemical.
        1. Mix two cc's of pepperment oil into a pint jar of warm (70-75 F.)
honey, needs to be warm for the oil to blend into the honey. Be sure the
jar has a lid cause as soon as you put in the oil it starts to disperse
into the air.
        2. After you have mixed the oil, use equal amount of water, which does not
need to be as warm and mix the two together. Keep the lid on until you are
ready to use it.
        3. Put into a spray bottle and lightly spray the tops of the frames of the
brood chamber. The pepperment oil fumigates the hive for varroa mites and
leaves the hive quickly. Spray about every three to five days, this should
get rid of the varroa, but if you still find some after two weeks, set up a
regular routine and they should be gone after a cycle or two.
 
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> From: Greg J Zujus <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Mites
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:23 PM
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