Hello Jeremy & All,
Jeremy shared:
imilar lack of great mite control at the yards treated with
> one strip or two.
I might add that threshold (the level when a hive has too high a varroa load
for the beekeeper to spend money on a treatment) has little to do with
varroa kill.
I have used these over threshold hives before ( in archives) to test varroa
treatments. I moved these hives to a remote yard and tried many treatments.
What Jeremy describes is a product not killing the varroa.
Formic kill can take time as compared to say apistan or checkmite ( when
working correctly) but when the dose is correct with formic I do not see
what Jeremy *describes*.
Very interesting. Keep us advised Jeremy.
bob
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