I did an alcohol wash on the light green hive this afternoon. I found 5 mites in a half cup sample. Before isolating the queen, it had a mite count of 11. So that's a reduction of about 65%. It's not as effective as I'd had hoped to see, so I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. But I'm not prepared to give it up just yet. I'll take samples for the next couple of weeks to see what happens. They seem to be filling the top box with honey and moving down into the bottom box for brood.
The outyard hive in the old stand are not taking the 1:1 and they are still not really doing much in the brood department either. There's some eggs and young larvae, so I know that the queen is there. And they didn't do anything with the test frame I gave them so they aren't unhappy with the queen's performance. The population got a boost from the frame of emerging brood they got last week.
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