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Date: | Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:31:11 -0500 |
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From the Abstract: "Colonies treated with amitraz were healthier and had
better survival than those treated with OA vaporization. In conclusion, OA
and/or brood interruption did not provide sufficient *Varroa* control. "
I acknowledge that the study design was interesting - the various OAV
treatments were compared against each other, and then against the positive
control - that's how it reads (again no access to journal).
That sentence is highly misleading - OA is not created equally - this
should have been apparent to the researchers, and they failed to
distinguish that their *version *of OA was ineffective, not OA in general.
Claiming that, basically OA is inferior, regardless of how it's applied, is
not accurate. Their version of OA treatments weren't effective, *because *1g
is well established not to be an effective dose.
The conclusions that can be drawn, In my opinion - again - no access to
full article - is that the EPA recommendation of 1g is not effective, and
needs to be "revised".
Hopefully, a revised EPA recommendation is the outcome from this study.
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