Bill:
Look I appreciate your POV but the paper quoted is quite
intensive for reading and goes into great detail on the
photodegradation process on all aspects of fluvalinate and
I talked it over in great detail with Jerry Hayes when he
was with Dadant on getting the fluvalinate out of beeswax,
even to the usage of special lights when I wrote the actual
chapters in "The Way Back to Biological Beekeeping" (free
book, posted at beesource.com). It is a paper used by the
chemical companies producing fluvalinate, and is restricted
reading for just outright usage/field without permission.
The penetration of sunlight with the wax is not very deep
like only about 1/8 inch would be a lot and 1/16 would
probably be closer to the actual breaking down, and this is
just not done in solar wax melters. You'd get better
breakdown of the fluvalinate, throwing the waxed frames out
in sunlight for the cell walls to face the sun themselves
when empty, then in a solar wax melter.But remember to flip
them over to photodegradate the other side with the sun the
following day or so.

Perhaps you should try to request a copy of the paper if
you can and read it.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
Http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/





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