Bee Liners I placed fluvalenate strips in about fifty colonies on Monday to treat for Varroa. I first detected Varroa last fall but was able to delay treatment until this fall. One of the colonies I treated Monday had a pollen trap on it and I decided to leave it on to see what would fall into the collection tray. I stopped by the bee yard on Wednesday and opened the collection drawer on the trap and saw a significant sprinkling of mites. However, upon closer examination I noticed that almost all were alive and moving, albeit slowly. I have used sticky boards in the past to check for mites and assumed the mites were dead when they hit the board. However, the glue would finish off any live mites. I am wondering what the prognosis is on the moribund mites I saw in the pollen trap. Were they stunned, and ready to crawl back up and reinfest. Intuitively I think not, since detectible mite levels go down following treatment, but it was still disturbing to see the mites crawling in the pollen trap. Bill Lord Louisburg, NC -- William G Lord E-Mail : wglord@franklin Internet: [log in to unmask] Phone : 919-496-3344 Fax : 919-496-0222