On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I've personally addressed the problem by not using synthetic miticides and > avoiding agricultural pesticides as much as possible, but mostly by selling > off a third to half of all my brood combs as nucs every season. This gives > me fresh combs each year, and nice, relatively new combs to sell in my > nucs. A win-win situation. I recover the cost of comb replacement in > setting the cost of my nucs. > Some do not have our luck of selling nucs. As an industry we should have a way to clean up our wax from this agrochemical residues. This cleaning should be part of the wax to foundation process. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html