Joking?  Why would they be joking when they claim to have saved beekeeping
from the ravages of Varroa?  To wit:
By administering an iron supplement, the beekeeper does not have to take
other measures to combat the Varroa mite.
http://www.science-in-water.com/us/bees/administering-iron.html

Best results are apparently achieved when the iron supplement is liberally
administered in an Oil of Serpentes.

Now, it appears that bees are claimed to suffer the same problem as the
> housewives of the 1950s and 1960s - "Iron-Poor blood".
>
> I cannot improve on the humor of the ad, except to note that they do not
> appear to be joking.
>

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