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In my defence, I DID say I think it would be tantamount to killing them anyway… However there would then be an opportunity to let the queen produce more with no interference.

Because mites are attracted to young ADULT drones. FROM nurse bees/ elsewhere in the colony.

100% this. It is something I would like to try but nothing I do could give scientific data, just anecdote. Chemically treat the drones after 3 days and release them. I would suggest that sticking them seperately into a nuc with some nurse bees and food would enable either OA vape or 3 days of...

He did an alcohol as a control, and then on the same occasion did a count by hand (one by one!) of the same sample-size of bees to check that their hand-counting and the alcohol wash corrolate. At the time, he also trapped and hand counted mites feeding on drones. This was done 9 days...

A few things are revealed. One is that yes, mites are not only attracted to drone brood as we already know but that phoritec mites vastly prefer and are attracted to 1) young adult bees under the age of 4-5 days rather than say 1 week old 2) much prefer young adult drones to young nurse bees...

Nor I! I'd be super interested to see it.

Thank you.

This is VERY interesting and ground-breaking research that we all need to know about. The first 50m is the most informative. I personally think it also suggests some possible modes of future treatment (particularly the timing thereof) you'll understand why after watching it.

What does any of that have to do with this thread?

@MillMeadow Is this the one you are refering-to? That would be drone BROOD not adults, ie the conventional method we all know about already.

Not sure why this has been moved to treatment-free. The video needs to be seen by everyone and I am not suggesting going without treatment, in fact my OP specifically mentions treating them.

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Yes, we did know that. It bears no relevance to this however.

There are a couple of '22 published papers published by the author of the video and follow-ups. The rest is all about capped brood.

That would be precisely not what I am suggesting.

I do agree that we dismiss the importance of drones.. As I said in my OP, I am talking about adult drones, NOT brood. Watch the video!

Ah! I can ask him directly then, thanks.

I was not aware of that. Any links to where I can find more information about that?

You need to watch the video, it covers all of that. The only approach I am aware-of (which has varied results as I understand it) is to remove drone comb that is capped and thus the varroa that are in the cells. I am suggesting allowing the (trapped) drones to hatch so that phoretic mites...

This is long (first 50mins is most useful) but people NEED to see this research, it is extemely interesting and potentially groundbreaking. It seems to me that a potential treatment that could come out of this (rather than better detection methods) might be to insert drone-comb, trap it in a...