peter dillon wrote:
> A description on work that is proceeding in France relating to FGMO may
> be found on the following site:
> http://apiservices.com/articles/huiles.htm

Peter and Barry- thanks for the link and translator,

Bablefish only translated part of the page but from it I gathered
they used a fogger, which was also used by some in the early
stages of the FGMO discussion. I also understand that this is the
way that Dr. R is now proceeding.
My read of their conclusions, and it is tentative since the
translation its a little shaky, is that with certain formulations
of FGMO and I guess water, they got very good mite drop, about
97%. They did say that what they have done so far is a basis for
possible future use of FGMO as a varroa controller, but not at
present because of difficulty in formulations and application.
So, FGMO gives good mite drop when applied as a fog. But it has
to be the right mix, since pure FGMO gave about half the mite
drop.
My read on where we are with FGMO is that the original methods
reported here by Dr. R do not work, based on research by the
Finnish Ag Research Station, but fogging with the right
formulation does work but is labor intensive and difficult to get
the correct formulation.

I am not selling that Apistan stock yet.

Bill T