>Anyone want to try treating their bees with nice, natural, raw, organic crude oil? > >I sincerely hope you are being intentionally sarcastic. Jerry No, I was not being sarcastic. I was being facetious. However, if anyone questions my seriousness, I would most definitely encourage them to use petroleum distillates. (We need to quit molly coddling folks. If they don't have common sense, they deserve to do stupid things.) I would also like to remind you that using flammable petroleum distillates IS a USDA approved method for killing varroa mites. Alcohol washes and ether rolls ARE very effective at killing varroa mites. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html