Could anyone give me a detailed break-down of the drone-trapping method of varroa control? I understand that the technique is quite labor intensive, but can it be as effective as fluvalinate in controlling varroa? Thanks for any info. Tom Culliney =============================================================== Thomas W. Culliney * Phone: (808) 973-9529 Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture * Facsimile: (808) 973-9533 Division of Plant Industry * E-mail: [log in to unmask] 1428 South King Street * Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 * U.S.A. * =============================================================== "...but in the minds of most men, the learned as well as the vulgar, the idea of the trifling nature of his pursuit is so strongly associated with that of the diminutive size of its objects, that an _Entomologist_ is synonymous with every thing futile and childish."--Kirby & Spence (1816) ===============================================================