I tried MAQS in July and the treatment failed to control mites. I tried it again on 160 hives in August with better results. I used one and a half strips per double-deep hive, and two strips for triple-deeps. I saw an immediate mite drop that amounted to hundreds or thousands of mites per hive after one week (did not see much mite drop at all back in July.) I saw no queen problems in hives treated with one and a half strips, but some dead queens in the larger hives treated with two strips. After treatment I saw some brood emerging with DWV caused by varroa parasitism during developement, but no mites alive on the emerging brood after treatment in the double-deep hives. It appeared that the treatment did not work as well in the small number of triple-deeps I treated. I am going to do another 80 hives (some of which are definitely on death's door) later this week. These bees are in hot temperature locations so I will observe how well the warmer hives cope with it. --Jeremy Rose San Luis Obispo, CA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm