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Should I remove drone comb to reduce varroa mites
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I formed 2 nucs from 1 hive so now I have 3 . They are all doing fine. I seem to have queens. Anyhow my question is now that I don't need the drones anymore should I cut out any drone comb to reduce varroa mites? I use 10 frame deeps, top entrance, SBB,homemade powdered sugar every 10 days, leave them lots of honey and pollen,alternate a frame of small cell wax foundation with a frame of starter strip. I still have more mites than I think is okay!
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Removing drone brood is a method or killing some mites but it is kinda labor intensive. I bought 2 of those green drone frames years ago and used them one. Not for me I guess. A break in the brood cycle helps a little also when you make splits and let them raise their own queen.
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If there are a lot of mites in the drone brood, sure... but if not, I'd leave it.
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Re: Should I remove drone comb to reduce varroa mites
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Quote from: Michael Bush on May 22, 2011, 11:15:17 PM
If there are a lot of mites in the drone brood, sure
Michael, how do you know if there mites in the drone brood or not?
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You take an uncapping fork and pull a bunch out and look. If they are heavily infested, you pull the rest out. Or if you don't have an uncapping fork, make do with something else.
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Great answer. I'm going to do that.
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