On a somewhat different topic, my county extension agent wants to know if
streptomycin used to treat apple trees in blossom to control fire blight
poses any problems to bees.   I told her not to my knowledge.  We feed
bees terramycin and in the past have used other antibiotics.  My guess is
no problem, either to bees or to contamination of hive products, since
the bees aren't storing any surplus honey at this time of year.
 
I checked my pesticide databases, no tests for streptomycin listed in
them.  If anyone has any hard evidence one way or the other, will you
please forward it.  I told Jennie I would toss this one to the list.
 
Thanks
 
Jerry Bromenshenk
The University of MT
 
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