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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13992" data-attributes="member: 13">Your situation is worse than ours was because when mites arrived over here they were not immune to the treatments, It was just a simple case of put the treatments in, and a few weeks later the mites were gone. So we had time for a bit of a learning curve before our mites developed immunities.Australia has got mites that are already immune. No time for a learning curve, and from what I am seeing most Aussie beekeepers still unable to see the signs of mites in their hives, then all of a sudden, their hives are dead, it is a surprise to them.The traditional mite treatments being recommended by the Aussie government just don't work very well any more, if at all. My suggestion is go with the organic acids, being oxalic acid and formic acid. Me, all I am using now is formic acid.</blockquote>

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