>>I just cannot see killing drones when it doesn't have to
happen, and besides they work very hard to keep the mites
and secondary diseases in check throughout the active year
when left to do their jobs naturally with small cell
ratios. Somehow making imbalance to me by sacrificing them
does not make sense with whole sheets of drone cells
destroyed this way and on top of that scented. Sorry....

No need to be sorry, Dee.  I don't use mite trapping in drone cells in my hives.  The idea does not appeal to me 'ethically' (slaughter of the innocents...) even if it does control mites.  When mites got bad this year, I used sucrocide sprays with mixed results instead.

Regards,

Waldemar
LI, NY

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