>
> >harm due to miticides is non-trivial and may require some sort of
> compensatory or remedial action.


Thanks for reminding us of this Pete.  It's funny how folk call synthetic
miticides "hard treaments," and organic acids and essential oils "soft."
 As far as I can tell, the descriptions should be reversed.

Although I use those "natural" treatments myself, I do not delude myself
into thinking that they are easy on the bees--hence my recent
experimentation and data collection on formic and oxalic treatments.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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