This past weekend we held our annual summer picnic meeting.( Assoc. Of Southern Maryland Beekeepers) The president of our organization had planned to do various tests to detect varroa in his hives. The hives were located on a large farm where he had about 12 hives. We pulled about 6 sticky boards and were only able to find one mite. We did an ether roll and found zero. We used about 150 to 200 bees from three different hives. He also demonstrated the powdered sugar method and again no mites. While we had the hives open we looked at some of the drone brood. No mites. Just makes you wonder what is going on. Any other people finding the same? Billy Bee