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?> >unless you are restricted to "soft" treatments, in which case, you are
screwed. (That is the scientific term).
> Then I've been scientifically screwed for over ten years...but still in
> business, and providing top-grade colonies to almonds, and selling large
> numbers of nucs each spring.
Right. Soft treatments can work, but let's keep my words in context and not
just snip half the argument.
I was *not* saying what the snip appears to make me say. What I was saying
is that soft treatments are known to have problems bringing down high loads
and we were looking at a borderline case and a probable disaster in
progress.
Specifically, in this case, I was wondering about the hive at 18 mites
washed (6% is reportedly the upper limit for saving a hive with soft
treatments) but as far as being screwed, was speaking of the yard with a 10%
average in mid-fall. Obviously, since this is an average, some of the hives
were higher and some lower. IMO, most are out of the zone for salvation
with soft methods.
Here is what I actually said:
> In the latter case, what are we to think about the one at 18? We know
> what to think about the yard at 10%. Easy decision -- unless you are
> restricted to "soft" treatments, in which case, you are screwed. (That is
> the scientific term).
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