> Tom Hochheimer requested information on honey contaminated by Apistan. > Tom please explain exactly what you did. IF you removed ALL supers when > you installed the Apistan and then removed the Apistan prior to replacing > your supers, you will not have contaminated your honey. If on the other > hand, you removed and extracted the honey, putting the wet supers back on > with the Apistan still in place you will have gotten some Apistan into > the honey. There have been some comments on the small amount of Apistan > in the brood combs (don't extract them for human use), but since it is a > contact miticide, the residual down below can be "tracked"up into the > supers. Not enough to worry about. > BTW, some of the comments I received on the viruses being used, not > being a pesticide, why is, then, a miticide still considered a pesticide? > Let's face it any formulation used to kill 'critters' we consider a pest > is a pesticide IMHO. > -- > Gerard P.Worrell Beekeeper with 25 colonies > (410)257-3267 Dunkirk,MD USA > Pres. Assoc. of Southern MD Beekeepers > Life member MD State Beekeepers Association,VP for Calvert Co. > REPLY: Jerry, well done. I agree w/ U 100%. BTW, hope the operation succeed. Am prayin' 4 U. John Iannuzzi PhD * "Singing masons building roofs 9772 Old Annapolis Rd * of gold." --Shakespeare Ellicott City MD 21042 usa * 20 Italian colonies [log in to unmask] * 3-1/2 decades in beedom