> Tom Hochheimer requested information on honey contaminated by Apistan.
> Tom please explain exactly what you did. IF you removed ALL supers when
> you installed the Apistan and then removed the Apistan prior to replacing
> your supers, you will not have contaminated your honey. If on the other
> hand, you removed and extracted the honey, putting the wet supers back on
> with the Apistan still in place you will have gotten some Apistan into
> the honey. There have been some comments on the small amount of Apistan
> in the brood combs (don't extract them for human use), but since it is a
> contact miticide, the residual down below can be "tracked"up into the
> supers. Not enough to worry about.
>    BTW, some of the comments I received on the viruses being used, not
> being a pesticide, why is, then, a miticide still considered a pesticide?
> Let's face it any formulation used to kill 'critters' we consider a pest
> is a pesticide IMHO.
> --
> Gerard P.Worrell Beekeeper with 25 colonies
> (410)257-3267  Dunkirk,MD USA
> Pres. Assoc. of Southern MD Beekeepers
> Life member MD State Beekeepers Association,VP for Calvert Co.
>
  REPLY:  Jerry, well done. I agree w/ U 100%.  BTW, hope the operation
succeed. Am prayin' 4 U.
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