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'''Early summer'''<br /> | '''Early summer'''<br /> | ||
This is the time when you should begin to remove the sealed drone brood that | This is the time when you should begin to remove the sealed drone brood that harbor a proportionally higher number of Varroa mites than worker brood. You can diminish the mite population considerably by continuously having the bees rear drone brood and then removing them regularly. The drones are usually reared until mid-July, after which the drone removal can be stopped. | ||
'''Mid Summer'''<br /> | '''Mid Summer'''<br /> | ||
You can continue removing drone brood for as long as the colony is willing to | You can continue removing drone brood for as long as the colony is willing to rear them. The swarms and nucleus can be treated for Varroa with treatments like evaporating thymol or trickling oxalic acid in as early as midsummer if no honey is harvested from these colonies during the same season. | ||
'''Late summer'''<br /> | '''Late summer'''<br /> | ||