Let's not mix up homeopathy, a specific technique developed in 1796, 
with traditional medicines using herbal products or modern medicines 
which are often based on plant-derived formulas. What ever you think 
about the theory of the former, it is a totally separate practice from 
the plant products that have evolved to interact with predators but 
don't get enough science unless they've been synthesized and patented. 
  As a scientist I don't understand homeopathy but I suspend disbelief 
in these cases since science didn't understand gravity at one point 
either, (still doesn't, completely).

I fooled around with essential oils when I started the Bond method back 
in 1997.  The possible interference with pheromones made me nervous and 
I quit after a few years of experimenting.  I do offer a lot of mint 
family plants around the beeyard that I water in summer.

I found FGMO useful only when mixed fifty-fifty with melted beeswax and 
painted inside the boxes of hives with screened bottom boards. As the 
bees groom it'll coat and kill mites.  It also works to entrap them on 
solid bottom boards which I no longer use. I switched boxes when I 
worked them, but I'm only a sideliner with 25-50 hives, no good for 
commercial tho good for my back.

Carolyn in SC

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