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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?
« Last post by The15thMember on Today at 08:02:34 pm »I'm going to try to look hard for mites and beetles this time around.At your stage of the game, I wouldn't expect to see any mites, if you are just going to be looking with your naked eye at bees' backs. Seeing mites riding on bees is usually a sign of an advanced infestation. You may have a few mites in there, but as they can also hide on the underside of bees, and during much of their life cycle they are in the capped brood, you shouldn't see any, just based on the probabilities. A sugar roll or alcohol wash could turn up one or two, but I would be concerned if I saw more than 1 mite if I was you.