Originally Posted by
fatshark
Interesting point ... but workers far outnumber drones (hopefully!) though this might be balanced a bit by drones drifting more. I'm not aware of seeing mites on drones more than workers ... other than in sealed brood obviously. Saying that, mite levels seem very low at the moment presumably due to the slow spring build up. We went through a 10cm patch of drone brood, both sides of the frame, and found no mites at all in a check last week.
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