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From: "Trevor Weatherhead"

>>  I've had good success by dissolving the tablespoons in a cup of sugar syrup, and then pouring it over the cluster.
>
>Treating in syrup increases the OTC found in honey compared to dry feeding.  That is why in Australia we shifted to dry feeding.  See https://www.agrifutures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/publications/04-091.pdf
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>There are some beekeepers who successfully keep bees without any treatment with OTC.  Work on the principle that EFB is a stress disease, so remove the stress and the bees get over the EFB.

     There appears to be a line around Sydney where above it, no 
treatment is done, and south they seem to think it is necessary.  I live 
up towards Queensland, we haven't treated for years.  When it first hit 
it was a problem, but soon subsided for reasons unknown, presumably 
resistance??  When we run courses for beginners it is unusual to be able 
to find a single cell to show them.

Geoff Manning

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