>snip
>_The_Hive-and_the_Honey_BEE_ also cautions that treated bees on infected
>equipment equals infected bees.  Treatment for infected equipment is
>fumigation with acetic acid.  I can't quote time of treatment or
>concentration of acid.  I really need an office library!
>
>Aaron Morris - I think, therefore I bee!
>
>I wonder if the formic acid treatment for mites  would not also control
nosema as formic acic being a single carbon acid  should be more
biologicially active than the two carbon acetic acid.  We in the US
hopefully will be allowed to use the formic acid systems in the near future
and this would shurely be a boon if the formic acid did indead reduce the
spore load in the colonies to a below economic level especially since it
would be an on going treatment.
How about it my Canadian collegues---have any of your scientiests looked
into this???
Dan Veilleux  Columbus, Ohio USA
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