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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2beefarm" data-source="post: 13993" data-attributes="member: 946">Really appreciate this, Alastair — that's exactly the kind of on-the-ground read I was hoping to get here. The resistance-from-day-one point is the bit that doesn't land with a lot of hobbyists here yet — most of the messaging is still "treat like everyone else does" rather than "assume the synthetic pyrethroids/amitraz are already compromised in your area, confirm with a mite wash before you trust a treatment worked."Question on your formic-only approach if you don't mind: are you running strips (MAQS-style) on a fixed calendar, or more reactive to wash counts? And do you find formic's temperature window workable across a full season, or do you fall back to oxalic (dribble/vaporised) for the cooler brood-break window? Trying to get a realistic AU-climate treatment calendar together rather than just importing a US/UK one wholesale — sounds like NZ's already been through that translation exercise once.</blockquote>

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