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> Impressed by your and allen's results we did our experiment:
> we shaked 59 jars with 1 spoon of icing sugar and more or less 100 ml
> of bees in a 390 ml jar with full net lid, quite hard for 90 seconds.
> The result is that sugar dislodged a mean of 94.9% of total mites
I guess I just did not shake hard enough or long enough. I just did the
same as I have been taught to do with alcohol.
>...After 1 hour more or less 10 bees (3%) > were dead... I don't know
> Which was the life expectancy of the others
My main reason for wanting to use sugar -- rather than alcohol -- is to
preserve the bees.
Torturing and killing bees this way does not seem to offer any
advantages over killing them swiftly in alcohol, and it requires more
time spent shaking them -- plus the counting is more difficult.
Anyhow, I think I have concluded my examination of sugar, alcohol and
drops and formed conclusions. I'll be summarizing my thoughts in my
diary at http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary shortly. Most of my writing
is there more or less in real time, and a bit bleeds over here.
Recent diary topics are constructing a boom loader (c/w drawings and
parts list), building extractor drives, making a bee truck out of a
pickup, skunk control, PF-100s and Pierco, etc., applying formic pads,
mite drops and alcohol washes, Apivar, and patty feeding in fall, to
mention only a partial list...
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