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Hello Garry & All,
Most us old timers know Garry meant to say *Apicure* instead of *Mitacure*
but thought I would correct. Mitacure was the old *Amatraz* strip. Many of
us thought beekeepers might could go back to the *Mitacure* strip when
resistance to fluvalinate mites were found but in Europe varroa resistant to
fluvavlinate were also resistant to Amatraz. I expect to see *Coumaphous*
resistant varroa pop up this spring.
Garry wrote:
Mitacure (formic acid) will kill all T-mites in two days, You leave it in
for 21 days though to treat varroa. Lets hope it is available again this
year as I treated twenty hives with it, two treatments each at 21 day
intervals.
Several Bee supply houses have said they are not going to be able to sell
*apicure* this spring due to packaging problems. It will be interesting to
hear from others which used the *apicure* last fall and see what kind of
results they got. I believe Garry was smart to treat twice at 21
intervals. The best varroa results I read were with using *Apicure* twice
and twice was what BetterBee recomended in their catalog for better varroa
control.
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Odessa,Missouri
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