Using the drone method will help!!!!
see http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/dronemethod.html
 
the labeling of the honey jar can be:
 
This honey is produced without any contact with pesticide
All controll of bee-mites, are doing bio-technical.
 
greeting, jan.
 
Malcolm (Tom) Sanford wrote:
 
> >From the pages of APIS, Volume 14, Number 8 August 1996
>
> THE WORLD'S BEESWAX--FOULING THE COLLECTIVE NEST
>
> Most beekeeping products are consumable items. They can be looked at as
> transitory (i.e.
> short-term assets on the beekeeping balance sheet). One, however, has
> traditionally been in the
> long- term asset category. This is beeswax, that marvelous substance only
> the honey bee can
> produce. Although it can be converted into other products (waxes,
> cosmetics), a huge amount is
> recycled by the beekeeping industry and given back to the industrious
> insects that made it as
> foundation for their nest.
>
> Along with those of honey (see May and June 1996 APIS), beeswax prices have
> escalated, though
> not necessarily for the same reasons. In the February issue of BEE BIZ (No.
> 2, 1996, pp. 3), Editor
> Matthew Allen analyzed this phenomenon. For many years, the market was
> split. Top-quality wax
> from Africa, the Americas and Australia was viewed differently than that of
> the Far East, mostly
> from China. The latter was often adulterated by paraffin and, thus,
> restricted to polish and candle
> use. The price differential between these two wax sources is now closing,
> Mr. Allen concludes, as
> demand for use in luxury items, confectionery and fancy food products
> increases, and so the price
> may remain high for some time. That's the good news. The bad news is that
> the world's beeswax is
> becoming more fouled each day, a tradeoff in controlling the Varroa mite.
>
> Ever since beekeepers began using pesticides inside living bee colonies
> (see December 1987 APIS),
> there have been concerns voiced about colony contamination. Most had to do
> with honey; these are
> reduced considerably now with appropriate use of Apistan(R). Few, however,
> considered the
> possible effect of long- term widespread use of the contact pesticide
> fluvalinate on the beeswax
> supply.
>
> No longer is this the case. Writing in the same issue of BEE BIZ as Mr.
> Allen (p. 4) about the 1995
> Apimondia meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Clive de Bruyn reported that
> high residue levels of
> fluvalinate have been found in beeswax. Because of the nature of the
> molecule, he concluded, it
> bonds with the wax, making it almost unremovable. The Australian Bee
> Journal (quoted from June
> 1996 Bee Culture, p. 376) says virtually every kilogram of European wax is
> contaminated, most
> likely because of recycling fluvalinate-impregnated wax for foundation.
>
> European beekeepers, therefore, are examining their beeswax more closely
> than in the past, and not
> using heavily contaminated product for foundation. Dr. Peter Rosenkranz,
> University of Hohenheim
> reported at the Fifth Ibero Latin American Beekeeping Congress in Mercedes,
> Uruguay (June 1,
> 1996) that residues from two to 20 milligrams of fluvalinate per kilogram
> of beeswax have been
> found. He says these levels might be enough to cause pesticide resistance
> to develop in Varroa. Mr.
> de Bruyn says that so much resistance can already be seen in certain
> districts of Italy, France and
> Germany that beekeepers are being advised to abandon all pyrethroids
> (chemical relatives of
> fluvalinate) in favor of other chemicals.
>
> If levels of fluvalinate get too high, might there not be concern that the
> honey bees themselves will be
> poisoned by the chemical designed to rid them of Varroa (see April 1992
> APIS)? There is some
> hope that beeswax from places that don't have Varroa would dilute the
> worldwide supply, according
> to the Australian Bee Journal, as referenced in Bee Culture. However, it
> concludes that a return to
> fluvalinate- free wax, would take an estimated fifty years, provided there
> was no chemical usage for
> that time period.
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