A Surprise Harvest

I pulled my sticky board from the screened bottom board and found that there were a pretty good number of mites stuck to it, so I knew I wanted to treat the girls with more of the powdered sugar. (You can see them in the close up of the picture under the cut that they're pretty thick on the "sticky board". It's actually a piece of cardboard with petroleum jelly smeared on it to make the mites stick). I'll probably stay with powdered sugar for most of the summer, and after all the honey supers come off, I'll probably treat with a miticide in the late fall.

( Cut for the pictures. )