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> Here is a formula used by a commercial beek in Colorado.
I have no opinion one way or the other -- OK, I am a bit skeptical, but I am
skeptical about everything. Just because the sun came up today and
yesterday and the day before... -- but I have to wonder how these amounts
and proportions are decided and how anyone knows if they work or not.
I realize they smell nice, but our various scientists have examined them
repeatedly, but few have been able to recommend them in the definite way
that 'commercial beekeepers' are.
I recall Adony gave presentations back around the turn of the century about
his work under Mark Winston testing a wide range of oils showing that there
is some efficacy for various purposes, but not offering any recommendations
that I can recall.
We have commercial spice formulations offered for mite control, but they
have been found to be variable in their effectiveness.
I can recall that tea tree oil was all the rage a while back. It was a
panacea, too. Where did that one go?
We know that the Carl Hayden Bee Research Centre people have been playing
with oils. I seem to have missed any definite conclusions or formulas or
products coming out of that.
My impression from the ABF conference was that everyone has, in a sense,
given up and we have now resorted to 'magic', since science has not
delivered a respite form CCD whatever it is. We had a main-session
presentation on coconut oil (of all things) by a fellow who has just tried
it for one year.
That said, Dave Wick, a virus-whiz lab guy from Montana said that he had
used a proprietary essential oil formula on his twelve hives and that his
bee viruses had seemingly disappeared. That got my attention, BUT, again,
it is a one-year, uncontrolled anecdotal report.
If this stuff is good and it works...
Where is the science?
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