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Allen Dick wrote:
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> > However, in going through all my yards in seven different locations, I
> > have yet to see a varroa mite this spring!! I basically pull out drone
> > brood (the easiest ones to get to are those exposed between brood
> > chambers), and in looking over hundreds of them I didn't see a mite.
> > Every spring for some years now there have always been mites, usually at
> > least one per cell and often many more. I haven't seen much on the list
> > about currnet mite populations until this post. What are others seeing
> > this year?
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> I'm curious: To those reporting no mites, what treatments are being used?
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> Is anyone *not* using Apistan, and finding no mites in hives that had them
> previously?
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> Allen
Allen -
I used Apistan for the required time starting Sept. 1 last fall and won't use it again till this
coming Sept. I find no mites this time of year and haven't in the past till about the first of
Aug.
-Barry
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Barry Birkey
West Chicago, Illinois USA
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