Just used Mite-away quick strips and they brought up a question.

Why do we put the 65% Drylock pads on the top bars of the top (second) deep
and not like the MAQS, between the deeps?

It seems like the optimum position is between the deeps, like the MAQS,
from a circulation point of view. My guess is that you get downward
movement of the vapors in the beginning from both temperature and density
of the formic, but as things heat up and the bees try to get rid of the
vapor, the movement is as much up (heat and circulation) as down, so you
get a more uniform distribution of the formic vapor, especially around the
brood area.

Continuing the guessing, with the 65% drylock strips on top, you get an
initial downward drift, but then some if not most of the vapor ends up
venting out the inner cover.

Lots of other variables involved here, but it is a question.

As an aside, I am very impressed with the MAQS since several weeks after
the treatment I cannot find mites either in drone brood or alcohol wash.
Same with the colony of a beekeeper I am mentoring. Very healthy bees.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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