Tom Hochheimer requested information on honey contaminated by Apistan. Tom please explain exactly what you did. IF you removed ALL supers when you installed the Apistan and then removed the Apistan prior to replacing your supers, you will not have contaminated your honey. If on the other hand, you removed and extracted the honey, putting the wet supers back on with the Apistan still in place you will have gotten some Apistan into the honey. There have been some comments on the small amount of Apistan in the brood combs (don't extract them for human use), but since it is a contact miticide, the residual down below can be "tracked"up into the supers. Not enough to worry about. BTW, some of the comments I received on the viruses being used, not being a pesticide, why is, then, a miticide still considered a pesticide? Let's face it any formulation used to kill 'critters' we consider a pest is a pesticide IMHO. -- Gerard P.Worrell Beekeeper with 25 colonies (410)257-3267 Dunkirk,MD USA Pres. Assoc. of Southern MD Beekeepers Life member MD State Beekeepers Association,VP for Calvert Co.