> put bananas and candy canes in the hives for "treatments",

Please explain? (should I be using the method? kidding Dean!)

> use fipronol in homemade SHB traps, various homemade treatments,
> etc....the list could go on.

fipernil? (chemical)

Various homemade treatments?

>I don't think it's particularly useful to single out "treatment-free" as an
>approach where people make mistakes that sometimes kill their bees.

As a professional beekeeper with decades keeping bees I say the methods you
describe are not easy to implement and success is hard to achieve.

What you describe in your post can hardly in my opinion be called "treatment
free" or with the SHB traps chemical free.

Enjoy your posts also!

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Missouri
drought worsens with no end in sight.

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