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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stoney" data-source="post: 3752" data-attributes="member: 34">Great summary Otto. Yes it would appear in light of the apparent varroa disaster there may be a few more needing something like ox staples even as an in between synthetics treatment. I’m not surprised that there are now many large outfits using staples reliably only relying on synthetics on problem sites as the need arises. As you say the key is to keep the crawlers suppressed and for me that means 3 staple treatments.. aug/sept, Jan (harvest) and april/may Harvest or thereabouts.. for me this season has been very late with solid autumn dew flows and big brood, treating ox staples at these times for me means mites are very low and the last treatment remains in until the spring opening.</blockquote>

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