Hello To All,

While visiting Thorne's website in England yesterday I came across Certan
on sale. Certan used to be available in the United States as a
preventative treatment for waxmoths ( Please see Archives:
http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0406B&L=bee-
l&P=R999&D=1&O=D) and others with Certan as the “Search For:”.

Just the day before I had pulled a frame of small hive beetle larvae out
of a mating nuc and after seeing the Certan advertisement I wondered if
there had been any efficacy studies with Certan and the small hive beetle;
or perhaps a similar bacterium.

Can anyone enlighten this poster if such a study has been done or is in
progress?

Cheers,

Chuck Norton
Norton’s Honey Farm
Reidsville, NC 27320

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