Hi all,

Thymol treatments seem to have been embraced by the beekeeping community (larger producers, and even the organic and natural crowd...except for the "treatment free" camp) as a safe and effective mite treatment.

We attended a talk last week by Maryann and Jim Frazier at the Backyard Beekeepers in CT.

Apparently, they have some evidence at Penn State that thymol has an unfortunate side effect..it increases the permeability of other pesticides (presumably both agricultural and beekeeper applied) through the bee cuticle.  

They did not present what the evidence/data was that they had observed/collected, but it was clear that despite the fact that it was this years intended "pre installation treatment" for packages in their program, they decided not to use it at all, and although Maryann still recommended other "soft" treatments in her talk, she warned strongly against the use of thymol.

deknow

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