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> From: Theodore V. Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: bee inspection
> Date: Thursday, May 15, 1997 11:34 AM
> In Michigan, unfortunately, there is no longer any funding to support
> state bee inspections, so it's everyone for oneself now.  However, in
> going through all my yards in seven different locations, I have yet to
> see a varroa mite this spring!!  I basically pull out drone brood (the
> easiest ones to get to are those exposed between brood chambers), and
> in looking over hundreds of them I didn't see a mite.  Every spring
> for some years now there have always been mites, usually at least one
> per cell and often many more.  I haven't seen much on the list about
> currnet mite populations until this post.  What are others seeing this
> year?
>
 
While going through my hives yesterday, I found quite a lot of drone brood
on the bottoms of the frames, so I removed them with my hive tool.  Upon
opening a number of them, I only found one mite, but I'm sure it wasn't a
proper survey.  But it still looks good.  I had left the Apistan strips in
all winter and just removed them.
 
Also, to those out there with whom I write to outside of the list, I have a
new email address because I changed internet providers.  I can't seem to
make my old email account automatically forward everything here, so I hope
I don't miss any mail.  On the plus side, I now run Internet Explorer,
which means I can now see all of the wonderful Beekeeping Pages out
there...:)
Cheers,
Ian
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