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Peter Edwards said:
> ...use oxalic... in late autumn to clean up mites from re-invasion.
> However, I have found this to be unnecessary and Stephen Martin in
> his lecture stated the that re-invasion problem has been greatly exagerrated.
That's an unexpected statement, what did Mr. Martin say?
A long-term (and still ongoing) study on a reasonably large number of
hives at several apiaries by Dr. Wyatt Mangum of Virginia, USA was
said by Wyatt last summer to show that reinvasion (or "inter-colony
drift", if you will) IS the apparent primary means for spreading varroa
between hives.
We should introduce these two and let them compare data.
I can vouch for Wyatt's data, as he collects it all himself from
mostly his own hives, and he is a math professor, so his statistical
work is known-good.
jim (In review of the contract, I found that
I sold my soul to SANTA, a lucky typo...)
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