Johan Calis wrote:
> For a few years on a row we use a self-developed trapping comb method with
> drone brood, which is removed from the colony after capping together with the
> trapped mites. The trick of this method is that you manage drone brood
> production and let this drone brood trap mites in otherwise broodless
> colonies e.g. during swarmprevention methods. This year we wrote a manual for
> this method (in Dutch) and give a course to interrested bee-keepers.
 
This is interesting.  Most biotechnical methods of varroa control tend
to be labour-intensive.  If your method is integrated with swarm control
(another labour-intensive operation) it would seem to have the potential
for little extra work beyond what would have been required just for
swarm control.  Could you tell us more?
 
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