I doubt any treatment will be 100% effective at any single point in time. Some mites may be on foragers, or robbers could be bringing others back. It?s a moving number.
Most of the mites will be under cappings. Most of the ones that aren?t will be on nurse bees near open brood.
So if you treat the brood chamber you?ll get most of the mites not under cappings.
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