Randy Oliver writes:
If any critter in the hive is likely to be unaffected by formic acid, it would be the fermentation organisms!


Reply:
Yes, Randy this is true in a natural setting and at natural levels. But formic acid treatments by man is not using natural levels by a long shot.

 Further more, just like took much water intake can kill, so do the acids, but in the mean time they burn the body, creating functioning maladies for flight, thermoregulation, sight, digestion problems, disease vectoring etc.
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Food requirements during the active year isn't so bad, for the bees can bring in more daily, though the wounds inflicted and secondary diseases start mounting. But in winter time with no new food coming in and confinement the game changes; and with adult bees and new bees if any produced in question, then problems start if bees cannot be replaced nor kept alive for long life periods due to eating problems like food with no nutritional value because of man's treatments.

Dee A. Lusby 



      

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