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Re: DICOFOL
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Grant Gillard <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:27:25 -0800
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Peter Borst wrote:  "High smoke concentrations resulted in a typical and immediate reaction of the parasites :  they left the bees, so that they were more intensively subjected to the smoke.   --  Apidologie 14 3 (1983) 175-182"
 
Thanks, Peter!  I wonder how much of the effect was from the smoke itself, and how much was from the chemical.  
 
Burning staghorn sumac berries in a smoker has been highly touted (smoke is yellow, sulferous and stinks).  Having done some simple sticky board tests, sumac against "regular" smoker fuel and cedar chips, sumac had a higher mite fall.  It smells so bad, even the bees start leaving the hive.
 
But others have discounted the sumac and suggested it was the smoke.
 
Grant
Jackson, MO
 
 


      

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