> You will get lots of opinions on this. Dusting is a good, accepted
> preventive action. Patties are not.

In my personal experience, patties were the best way to apply OTC, and
eliminated all signs of AFB in my outfit.

Last I heard, OTC patties were still approved by government in the USA, and
sold by Mann Lake.  Has this changed?  I have researched the case against
patties, and found it to be an unproven hypothesis that appealed to the
popular imagination and spread like wildfire.

The rapid escalation of an unguarded comment by a researcher when asked to
speculate at a public meeting, is a sterling example of how quickly
speculation turns into rumour, and rumour into 'fact'.

It is also a great demonstration of why we should doubt much of what we
hear, and illustrates why I personally have little respect for many of the
'rules' that self-proclaimed beekeeping gurus promulgate, or much of the
'lore' that fills many books.

allen
A Beekeeper's Diary: http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/

Currently on holiday

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