Re: Legris bottom board - anti Varroa

"kauhl-mbg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> hello Peter & amg,
> I have looked to this mentionned article in New Scientist and will try
> this mirror method also, because when experimenting with bees
> in a brood chamber I noticed also an augmented falling rate of mites
> when bees were agitated -
> what concerns the bottom grid, I use it already for years to count
> the falling number of mites - but 90 % of them are dead, so the
> solution of your french fellow cannot work -
> ask him to count them also and then multiply this number by
> 200 and you have the quantity of the mites still existing inside
> the cluster -
> I am sure, we will hear from one another soon again -
> what about the british experiments with cluttering medicated
> flour over the cluster - mites will loose their hold (also confirmed
> by own experiments) -
> when I look at the mites under the stereoscope I wonder if
> there is any adhesive underpressure of their big dorsal shell,
> which protects them against all attacks -
> with apicultural passion from the Lake of Constance
> kauhl
> 

Hi. Very interesting. So are you saying the method is disproven -- or
that it might work if the bees are also periodically floured and
stirred? Is it possible some other mechanical method (a brush?) might
help to dislodge the mites? The drones seem to be a particular target.