In a message dated 7/12/00 6:00:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Around here (central Louisiana), varroa crashes usually happen in =
> September, so we pull supers in July and put strips in. We treat again =
> in Jan.-Feb., just before the nectar flow in March.
>
If you have been having a drought with no nectar coming in brood production
slows or stops and the bees can't outproduce the mites. This happened last
year to a lot of us in the northeast. It gets hard to time treatment by just
a calendar.