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Great reply, Bob.
We used powdered sugar on our packages this spring and so far have seen very
low mite load on those particular bees (mating nucs). Have thought, maybe a
package dunking in Sucricide coupled with a powdering would virtually
eliminate all mites from packages. It might not even be necessary to do
both. Sugar would probably be best to do first then Sucricide. I have a
prototype sugar powdering chamber that I am planning on experimenting with
next year. It has to be simple, easy, cost effective, and not destructive.
Sugar/Sucricide treated" packages coupled with conducive mite genetics,
survivor bee genetics (yes, you can select for survival-think Darwin) and
clean comb IS a winning combination.
Dann
> Beekeeping problems have to be solved without the disruption of the U.S.
> pollination.
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