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Varroa counts: the alcohol wash, done properly

Sugar rolls undercount. Here is the protocol, the mite-per-hundred-bees threshold, and how to log it so the trend means something.

James Burrow

1 min · Updated 26 Jul 2026

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James Burrow

Beekeeper and the developer of BroodLink. Runs eight hives in North Carolina, most of them wired to something. Interested in what hive data looks like when enough beekeepers pool it.

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Apiary monitoring for beekeeping nerds. Hive data, hardware, and the reasoning behind both.

Varroa counts: the alcohol wash, done properly

The short version

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