In a message dated 12/23/03 4:12:41 PM GMT Standard Time,
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> However, for the Northern
> commercial beekeeper, it seems to me that something a bit more effective, a
> lot quicker, and much less invasive is needed.
>

A while back a guy selling this product basically told me the same thing. He
did not reckon it a practical or particularly desireable method for my
situation, where bees are on a crop right into September, and are of a strain easily
stressed.

Add in the practicality of doing it to 200 plus colonies every day to get
round the once a week requirement, and this too at a time when brood rearing is
still present, albeit in sharp decline, and the numbers just don't stack up.

Murray

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