From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:23:39 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Mite damaging behaviour

Hi Robert

Give them a dusting or 2 with icing sugar (since apistan screws with their memories) or something to lower the mite level, and see what proportion of the remaining mites show damage next time.

Again, treating in this situation has nothing to do with any treadmill, only to learn what is happening - in this situation we deliberately want to leave some mites behind.

-Pav

At 1/08/02 04:30:00, Robert wrote:
>>at each successive... check... a higher proportion of
>the mites appeared be damaged.
>>... a learning process?

>it could be... behaviour... triggered by increasing numbers of
>mites. I don't see an easy way to distinguish between the two.