> Why do many use drone brood removal a part of their IPM program if there
> are only a few mites in the green drone sized frames.
>
Could be as simple as the fact that the method uses a whole frame of drone
cells, so the probability of the nurse bee finding a drone cell on the
frame is 100% while it would be low on a normal frame of brood.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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