Im going out on a limb here but ill say this, people say use certain kinds of smoke to kill mites, they say they get a higher mite count during 24 hours!!!! I don't usually do mite counts but I have a couple times,,,, the thing is to make something that gets on the bee's from what I seen that makes them groom!!!! I used sucrocide one time last year on a hive that had soo many mites they would kick out of the hive about 5 bee's in 15 minutes with DWV and I treated this hive one time with sucrocide by just spraying between the frames (24 hour drop after treating was 76), the next week I had another hive do the same thing and I did the same thing with this hive but I only sprayed water (24 hour count after treating with water was 63) and that was just water, BOTH HIVES STILL GOING STRONG THIS YEAR AND MADE IT THROUGH THE LAST WINTER.... I have heard of others doing this with water and thats were I got the idea from but it made the bee's groom more when they get something on them........ this is not a cure by far but it is something that may(not sure) make the bee's groom more.... I use cardboard in the smoker, it comes free with the stuff I buy or I can get a load of it at Sam's............ Oh hads to say that I dont know what the mite count was for either hive before treating just knew the had DWV...... and these were both feral hives I removed last year.......CARDBOARD ROLLED TIGHT WILL SMOKE FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS IN A SMALL SMOKER...
OK take your shoots at me now, I can just tell what I have seen........