On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
>
> I've personally addressed the problem by not using synthetic miticides and
> avoiding agricultural pesticides as much as possible, but mostly by selling
> off a third to half of all my brood combs as nucs every season.  This gives
> me fresh combs each year, and nice, relatively new combs to sell in my
> nucs.  A win-win situation.  I recover the cost of comb replacement in
> setting the cost of my nucs.
>


Some do not have our luck of selling nucs.
As an industry we should have a way to clean up our wax from this
agrochemical residues. This cleaning should be part of the wax to
foundation process.

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