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| Date: | Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:42:54 -0400 |
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Good morning,
i am looking for opinions on threshold levels at which varroa treatment should be instituted immediately and at what level one can wait until the end of honey flow. I pulled honey yesterday and checked hives for varroa using the sugar roll. Infection rate ranged from 0 to 3 percent. I have some buckwheat in full bloom and would like to wait on pulling the remaining supers until the flow finishes up. There is still much brood in the broodnests. A search on treatment threshholds gives widely different levels at which to treat. A Nebraska site suggests treating immediately at 3% while a Canadian site suggests at incidence levels below 10% I could wait. Thanks for the help.
Jack
Jack Rath
690 Heatherington Rd
West Pawlet, VT 05775
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