On 21-Jul-10, at 1:05 PM, Doug Tompsett wrote:

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>
>   When I say hot... smoking made them angry, sugar water sprayed on  
> them didn't help.

Hi Doug

I have a bag of cull tobacco leaf in my bee shed that I use seldom  
but have never seen it fail to get a mean hive calm when put into the  
smoker.  Part of a cheap cigar would also likely work.  Don't breath  
the smoke yourself as it's pretty deadly.  Put in a sticky board, use  
a small amount of tobacco smoke on any hive, then check the sticky  
board a few minutes later.  If you have varroa, there will be lots on  
the sticky board.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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