>From: "Michael G. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 15:14:24 -0700
>Subject: Apistan strips in hive during flow
>I left 2 apistan strips on the brood chamber of a new hive all summer. After
>rereading the instructions, I realize this is not the appropriate
>technique, and the honey from this hive sould not be used.
>Is this the correct conclusion?
Hello Michael,
Waste not, want not. Before you read this you must realize that
life gives us all many choices and if you allow other's to chose
for you, you may not be living. (A. Lincoln, class of '55)
YES and NO! You were right about the instructions. If you use the
honey yourself the amount of chemical and breakdown products should be
low enough to be safe,(IMHO), if not the bee's would be dieing. You can
reduce the amount of residue you will ingest by removing the wax capping
and only consuming the honey as the wax has absorbed the majority of the
active chemical. The amount of chemical you will be ingesting will be
no more then what most absorb into their system through their skin as
many beekeepers use no gloves when handling these strips and it is not
uncommon to find them lose in their pick me up truck and around the junk
in their honey barns or on the cabinet shelf on the back porch. It is
well to remember that beekeepers may think they are buying pounds of
active ingredients for the dollar's they are spending but factually they
are getting a few pennies's worth and minuscule amounts of active
material in an "so called" safe confident application package.
I have seen many of these strips left out side the hive in regulatory
use that had been chewed up by range cattle several times and never
have heard of a cow getting sick or dieing from them. Many beekeepers
today put the strips in the brood chamber's of their hives and never
remove them, a violation of the label for sure, but a common use
practice and one that could have been used to justified the reduction of
the active ingredient in the product so that those who were able to use
as directed,.. and then get a 2nd or 3rd use, now are 'peeing up a rope'
as some old beekeepers would say. In my youth 'safetees' that one time
were made of animal guts were then made of latex, a benefit from
WW II. They were designed to be re-used, same as tires, by putting them
in a glass of bedside water same as you would put your false teeth if
you had any. Some may have used the same water glass. Today no one
would think of doing this but beekeeper's who commonly re-use their
prophylactic's used for vampire mites.
If you market honey, like to a Honey Co-Op then it would be wise to
send in a sample to be checked prior to shipping. Some Co-Op's like
Sue Bee do regular checking for many chemicals known to be used by
beekeepers, both approved and those not approved and each year some
honey is rejected and returned to the honey producer. If the chemical is
one that is not approved for use then they also "must" and do inform the
authorities of what they found and the goon squad from Pure Food & Drug
follows up with a visit to that producer to be sure that drum or 100
drums was destroyed or fed back to the bees, a sad day for that
beekeeper. To bad the regulatory agencies are not as diligent with
imported honey from China found containing added sugars, but now that
they are going to get higher prices forced on them by our government
they will not have to add as much.
ttul Andy-
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