Daily Archives: March 29, 2015


How to Sample Bees for a Varroa Mite Count

Contributed by Dewey Caron Mite monitoring is good bee stewardship. It lets you know precisely how the bees are doing and how successful everything you may have done for mite management so far this season has helped the bees. Monitoring means taking the pulse of the colony – are they […]

Shaking mites out from an alcohol wash for counting.