In message <001f01c324c6$42708220$21ac58d8@BusyBeeAcres>, Bob Harrison
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>I predict when resistance to Apistan happens you will soon find fault with
>thymol. The still effective Apistan treatment (U.K.) is making the thymol
>treatment seem more effective in my opinion.
I replied
Mite
falls have settled down now and all colonies have recovered or are
recovering.
by concentrating on the beneficial effect of Apiguard, I might have
given the impression that colony recovery was contrary to Bob's
observation that there is a critical point past which they do not
recover. I omitted to say I had to add brood and bees to some colonies
to help them recover and 2 colonies never expanded normally (without
additional frames). They have been united to this years' nucs. The
little boost from the old bees helped the nucs to production level. One
even had a queen and about 100 bees in the spring and given a couple of
frames of emerging brood and young bees, kicked off, to profit later
from another frame. She only just made it.

As far as Apistan assisting the thymol, I do change comb in a 3 year
cycle. All my wax has come from sources which predate the application of
Apistan, so there will be a decreasing amount of Apistan in the wax.
--
James Kilty

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