On 21-Jul-10, at 1:05 PM, Doug Tompsett wrote:
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> When I say hot... smoking made them angry, sugar water sprayed on
> them didn't help.
Hi Doug
I have a bag of cull tobacco leaf in my bee shed that I use seldom
but have never seen it fail to get a mean hive calm when put into the
smoker. Part of a cheap cigar would also likely work. Don't breath
the smoke yourself as it's pretty deadly. Put in a sticky board, use
a small amount of tobacco smoke on any hive, then check the sticky
board a few minutes later. If you have varroa, there will be lots on
the sticky board.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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