In message <[log in to unmask]>, 
GAVIN RAMSAY <[log in to unmask]> writes

The man with most bees in Scotland is also using oxalic acid dribble as 
a main treatment and might well be reading this ...

Gavin


Yes Gavin, he is indeed reading this, after a nice Christmas Eve lunch 
out with a friend who I think you might know of.

Yes indeed we do trickling, and in fact I actually know of NO-ONE in my 
circle of friends and acquaintances doing the sublimation method. All 
the beekeepers I know of do the tricking, and they are doing it right 
now. My backpacks and dosing guns have been borrowed by the second 
biggest outfit (not far away to the north) day before yesterday so they 
can do their dribbling too. We are predominantly dribblers here <G>.

Any attempt to portray us as mostly non dribblers is inaccurate at best, 
and may be a reflection of the original writers personal wish to get us 
all converted to the evaporation method.

I see issue being made of evaporation coating all the surfaces in the 
hive, and if you think about it this will mean predominantly the colder 
surfaces, and I cannot see how that can be an advantage. The dribbling 
targets the cluster, where the phoretic mites themselves are present. 
Thats where I want to see the oxalic delivered.

Murray


-- 
Murray McGregor

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