> not discounting natural drop. See my recent article in ABJ about the correlation > between the two. I looked ion your site and found this. Since the articles are not dated, or noted as to publication, I am not sure if this is it. http://scientificbeekeeping.com/sick-bees-part-10-parasite-monitoring/ I discussed my own most recent drop experience here: http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/2009/diary092009.htm See Sept 26. >Did you start out with nucs or packages from the beekeeper? They were splittable doubles and I split the nine up to 38, then combined down to 28. > But in my experience, not to the point of zero natural drop in October. After the first 24 hours with zero, I found six today after the second 24. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm