> All I did was google fluvalvinate and half life and got lots of hits
> all dealing with the breakdown of fluvalvinate.

Into what?  Something pleasant and healthy, or another noxious chemical with
a half-life of a century or so?  Does anyone know?

> I agree with Peter's comment about water being present in a solar
> melter so there would be additional pressures for faster
> decomposition (an assumption based on facts).

Does it matter that the fluvalinate the beekeepers are supposed to be using
is tau-fluvalinate which, has an affinity -- I understand -- for grease, not
water?

There is much I do not know about these things.

allen

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