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> Exactly what I am talking about. I have a lot of experience with formic
> going back to field trials beginning in 1999. I made pads using gallons of
> formic and homasote boards.


I enjoyed a tour at Apimondia Chile of a bee yard of an older gentleman. He
made his own formic treatments using formic from the freezer (still very
much liquid) in a 100ml cup.  He cautioned that his brother didn’t wear
gloves filling the cups and burned a hole in his hand.  What appeared to be
small thin sponge was soaked in ice cold water and placed over the cup,
then the cup was inverted onto a small plastic plate placed on the bars of
the top hive body and covered with a shallow.  The cold and the water
soaked sponge helped slow the acid fume release.  He left it on for 7 days
and removed it.   He reported a good bit of supersedure but felt it was due
to inability to detect the QMP amongst the acid fumes.

I am glad someone makes something I can purchase for a reasonable price. I
try to pick up MAQS when I can but have to use them that same spring
because they all expire that August.

I am looking forward to trying some extended release OA products.

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