From the Honolulu Advertiser-

The state Department of Agriculture has issued a license for a product
> beekeepers may use to battle the varroa mite hounding Hawaii's honeybees.
>
> The department said in a statement today the miticide has already been used
> in Canada.
>
> Beekeepers place "Mite-Away Quick Stripes" on beehives, killing the mites
> but not the bees.
>
> Hawaii beekeepers found the product to be effective after the department
> issued a special permit allowing its use in 2009. But the U.S. Environmental
> Protection Agency stopped the sale of the product a year later because it
> contained an ingredient that wasn't EPA-approved.
>
> The department has since been working with the EPA to make the product
> available again.
>
> Varroa mites feed on the blood of honey bees, weakening them.
>

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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