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Date: | Fri, 24 Nov 1995 16:40:44 -0500 |
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>On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, David Eyre wrote:
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>> The idea of using a trap, is to force the queen to lay drone brood
>> at a time of year i.e. early or late season, when she would not
>> normally be laying drone brood.
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>Not necessarily. A common method here it to constrain the queen three
>times in succession onto different combs. This forces the varroa to
One major disadvantage would the amount of brood lost. I suppose the choice
of losing a hive to Varroa, or having smaller hives due to brood loss, is an
individuals choice! Either way it does break the dependance on chemistry.
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