This maybe a the wrong thing to do. Picking up swarms. I have been keeping
bees for 14 years and this is one practice I have STOPED. Let the mites move
on there own. I will not interduce tham in my hives>>>                Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cronshaw, D.C. <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, November 06, 1997 09:29
Subject: Swarms carry Mites
 
 
>Adrian Wenner wrote:
>
><<   I live in Santa Barbara also and caught a swarm in one of my backyard
>swarm hives.  I anesthetized the bees and counted them, as well as the
>varroa mites.  The bees numbered only 2000 (quite a small swarm), with 56
>mites among them.>>
>
>This would demonstrate that swarms can carry mites which will then
>re-establish them in the new hive.
>
>It makes sense therefore to put an apistan strip into a newly established
hive.
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>Paul Cronshaw, D.C.
>Cyberchiro and Hobbyist Beekeeper
>Santa Barbara, CA  USA
>