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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 3193" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>When going for reasonable accuracy in mite numbers I was taught to shake a lot more vigourously than that and we also added more icing sugar after the first set of shaking and did it all again. </p><p>This technique would undoubtedly dislodge a few mites if there were plenty there but you would be lucky to get any if there are only one or two.In some of the trials I did, if the numbers were very high you could probably keep on shaking for 15 minutes and still get the odd one. It's certainly less lethal than an alcohol wash but after shaking we had to give them to get the majority of the mites off I suspect it didn't do the bees much good</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 3193, member: 207"] When going for reasonable accuracy in mite numbers I was taught to shake a lot more vigourously than that and we also added more icing sugar after the first set of shaking and did it all again. This technique would undoubtedly dislodge a few mites if there were plenty there but you would be lucky to get any if there are only one or two.In some of the trials I did, if the numbers were very high you could probably keep on shaking for 15 minutes and still get the odd one. It's certainly less lethal than an alcohol wash but after shaking we had to give them to get the majority of the mites off I suspect it didn't do the bees much good [/QUOTE]
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