Hi Allen et al:

The dropping of live mites to the empty bottom box might explain the great
success obtained here by the unnamed miscreants who put strips in during the
fall and leave them until the spring.

                                    Best regards

> If that is true, it would explain why Apistan treatment in early spring,
in
> double hives with top entrances, in Alberta, with one strip, seems to work
> so much better than fall treatment.with multiple strips, and why
resistance
> has not been encountered using this method.


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