I am forced to do a real life experiment with my bees and Imidacloprid.

Past year was the first part of the experiment, when we try with 10 hives.
http://apiaraucania.blogspot.com/2011/05/confidor-imidacloprid-en-arandanos.html
(use the google translator)
all those colonies are still alive.

This year we have more than a 1000 colonies in the same blueberry
farms and we do not have another yard to move them to, nor the will to
do so. They are already in autum mode, therefore if we move them we
risk to break the cluster and start a nosema outbreak because of
stress.

The blueberries are under the thread of Pseudococcus sp. therefore the
farms have to spray with Confidor,
http://www.bayercropscience.cl/soluciones/fichaproducto.asp?id=168
a Bayer Imid based product.

We will close the entrance to the colonies close to the areas where
the application will be done. And keep on doing so as the application
progress. We will open the entrance after 24 hours. We have 50 hives
and 100 hives yards in that farm.

I will keep you informed.

Hope Harvard is wrong and the BeeInformed people are right.

Wish us luck !

Juanse Barros J.
APIZUR S.A.
Carrera 695
Gorbea - CHILE
+56-45-271693
08-3613310
http://apiaraucania.blogspot.com/
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