A treatment is a treatment, and I believe these things should not be used until
they have been tested and approved for use as a treatment in bee colonies.  If
propolis does have AFB inhibiting qualities, the use of such a treatment would
mask real performance, and make selection of AFB resistant traits more
difficult.  

Reply:This is why when we did second regression from 5.0mm -5.1mm sizing to 4.9mm and foulbroods and other secondary diseases stopped for most part to less then 1.2% seeing. We also stopped doing the propolis paddies. Now I simply pull the frames with any foul cells over 6 to a frame. Less then that I leave for the bees to handle. But for hardheaded beekeepers around local area that cannot or won't switch, and are on pierco and other stuff in the 1st regression range, I do advise them on the propolis paddies and how if they want to go futher to finally make the full switch to 4.9mm and be done with problem. Message gets thru to some, and some it doesn't.  Dee A. Lusby


 


      

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