Oh nobody must fear my mite bombs.
I?m practising soft bond right now, my susceptible colonies die in winter when they are no threat.
I rather fear my neighbors bees which are breeding more virulent mites and those bees try to rob mine every season after harvesting because they want to get at the honey, having only syrup.
My first hive was a treated one and robbed a neglected nuc apiary nearby. Mite numbers raised to the sky in two weeks.
I don?t want my yards to crash by invasion myself.
I gave a speaking last week and outed myself as a tf beekeeper. The treating beekeepers present were not interested in mite bombs
nor in resistance
Only interest was honey harvest.
Good for me and my co-workers, so we can go on unmolested in our breeding resistance efforts.
Is it true what the bee inspector said to me once, that bees used in the fall flow in the black forest are left to die because the mite numbers are so high no rescue possible?
That?s why commercials make many nucs in spring?
Or is it anecdotal?