allen dick wrote:

> (I have chronicled our minimal chemical regime on my diary.  Most of
> our overwintered hives had lower levels of varroa, 18 months after
> treatment with a single Apistan(r) strip, than Australian packages
> established this Spring!)

I should correct myself.  I did the math after posting and, they are
actually the same, at a 0.5% average, if we throw out the one outlier at
6.28%, or about double at a 1.1% average, if we leave it in.

Of course the hives that died last winter and those that were sold out of
the lot last Spring are not considered.  They are gone.  We are just looking
at the ones that are here.

Such is the difficulty in trying to make sense of things, but that is a
different topic: How many neat scientific study summaries fail to mention
the hives that fell by the wayside and anomalies discovered (and swept under
the carpet?) on the way to that conclusion?

allen
A Beekeeper's Diary: http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/

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