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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 13250" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>i think randy oliver had it in his early testing that chewing is not required. its walking and cleaning it that removes the acid off the surface. </p><p>what concerns me with the chewing is the opposite. that with half chewed out strips there is not enough surface area left to get enough acid on the bees to kill the mites.</p><p></p><p>also i have not tested for efficacy, simply because we can't run mites high enough to get clear results without the hives crashing. (we did mite counts many many years ago when testing thymol)</p><p>my mite testing has been very limited, enough to show it kills mites. i'll take randy's and others word for it, or more accurately the results the publish.</p><p></p><p>of interest the Swedish sponge wasn't to bad, very little removed. the bamboo cloth almost all of it was removed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 13250, member: 30"] i think randy oliver had it in his early testing that chewing is not required. its walking and cleaning it that removes the acid off the surface. what concerns me with the chewing is the opposite. that with half chewed out strips there is not enough surface area left to get enough acid on the bees to kill the mites. also i have not tested for efficacy, simply because we can't run mites high enough to get clear results without the hives crashing. (we did mite counts many many years ago when testing thymol) my mite testing has been very limited, enough to show it kills mites. i'll take randy's and others word for it, or more accurately the results the publish. of interest the Swedish sponge wasn't to bad, very little removed. the bamboo cloth almost all of it was removed. [/QUOTE]
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