Just what I always wanted, BTEX carcinogens in my wax that can leech into the honey and will continue to vaporize into the hive atmospheres.  Bad enough in highly urbanized areas, but petrol and nitrobenzene deliverately put into a hive - no thanks.







""By the way, in the above mentioned article, the treatment was for tracheal mites and one of the treatments was:

> a chemical mixture (2 parts nitrobenzene, 1 part safrole, 2 parts petrol) is known which kills all stages of the mite inside living bees. ""




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