<If you want to get rid of Varroa in a fresh swarm, add an Apistan strip when you make your inspection a week after hiving the swarm. Put the strip in the middle of the active brood area. You'll only need one strip because the brood area will be small. Take the strip out after it has been in for 6 weeks. After that, the colony will go on your regular mite treatment program.> Have not had a swarm since Varroa arrived in my apiary so cannot speak from experience. Could you explain why wait a week. At that time and from then on there will be larvae and mites will be entering cells. Is there any reason why we should not hit them from day one when all the mites are on the bees and have nowhere else to go? _________________________________________________________________ Sid Pullinger Email : [log in to unmask] 36, Grange Rd Compuserve: [log in to unmask] Alresford Hants SO24 9HF England