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Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:01:38 -0400
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Greetings from eastern Massachusetts, 20 miles west of Boston!

Yesterday we extracted, and we had a pretty good year.  I got 165 lbs from my 2
hives, and a friend got about 130 from hers.  That after I fed 3 full shallow supers of
honey to my weaker hive during the summer to help them build up.  There could
have been more, but only at the expense of my bees.

One of her hives, however, was horribly infested with Varrora.  I could see mites on
the bees, I could see mites on the brood in the honey supers, and they are obviously
on the frames themselves.

This raised a bunch of questions.

1.)  Will the mites on the honey supers die over the winter or do we risk re-infecting
when we put the equipment back on in the spring?  We do send all frames through a
freezer cycle to kill wax moth larvae/eggs, and I would assume that the mites will die
at this time too.

2.)  Will Api-strip treatment now be sufficient to knock down this infection?

3.)  Is there any ill effect on the honey from the supers of the infected hive?  Of
course, honey and Apistan were never on the hive at the same time.

Any and all information, advice and suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

--glen

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