Andy Nachbar wrote:
>
> At 08:45 PM 9/26/97 -0500, Ken Lawrence wrote:
> >hello again
> >        I need to add to instructions.  When treating 1-2 hives use 1 rounded
> >teaspoon per gallon of syrup.
>
> >Can be stored for 30 days at 90F (32c)
> >
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Unless there has been some change FUMIDIL-B should be kept only in the
> unopened containers, outside of any light, and refrigerated if possible. It
> should be packed in a air evacuated container made of dark glass. It is
> very heat sensitive and should not be dissolved in very hot water when
> preparing for addition to sugar syrup. If it is it will melt the wax or fat
> like carrier and become very hard in mix in syrup. It is made with a buffer
> added and should bubble up when added to tap or cold water.
>
> FUMIDIL-B should not be held over from year to year and any container that
> is opened and found to be changed by environmental conditions should not be
> used and returned to whom ever supplied it.
>
> There is NO know test to determine if what you are sold as active FUMIDIL-B
> is indeed what it is said to be and beekeepers should be careful from whom
> and what they buy. When it was manufactured in the US it was tested during
> the manufacturing process which was seasonal and inflated the costs. In
> those days anyone who had the gall could call the manufacture and actually
> talk one on one to those who were making the product hands on, I did and
> later was able to visit with one of them at a convention. But today with
> off shore manufacture I am very skeptical and doubt that anyone in this
> life could even find the address and telephone of the actual live bodies
> that are making this product just as I am sure you could with ease talk
> with a salesman for the product.
>
> This is one product that I would stay away from unless you know you have a
> problem or are interested in shipping bees or rearing queens as for most
> this is the only use that can justify the high cost of the product.
>
> IMHO, the OLd Drone
> Los Banos, California
 
        Hello Andy and All:
        The info I typed is taken off the packing list on bottle.  I myself use
it twice a year.  Spring and Fall.