1.6.2 Varroa: trap comb method

The concept based on caging the queen for one brood development cycle aims to allow the brood produced before caging to emerge and to remove and destroy the new brood produced during the caging period. The trap comb method does not involve the direct use of varroacides, as it reduces the number of mites present in the colony to about 20%. Acids are used only for the subsequent summer and winter treatments.