Good day all,
Randy wrote:  If not, we are experimenting

> between thymol and formic.  And of course an oxalic dribble clean up in
> late fall.
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You folks without climates like northern USA and us in Canada are fortunate
and so you can play with maqs etc/formic
Oxalic kind of fine tunes things but from my perspective it's not the
choice of those of us who want to open hives when it's cold.
I found thymol to be too expensive wrt bang for the buck.
Again, apivar is where it's at.
here's in short the story that got me on that
I overheard at a  breeders  meeting a few years ago three guys with big
operations chewing the fat on the topic as here and got into it with them.
One told the others that he had used formic religiously and seemed to be
happy with the results.  Just for the hell of it in November he decided to
drop a couple of strips of apivar into a hive.   He said the mite drop was
tremendous, there upon retreating all 1500 or more.  The others followed
suit . And so did I . So do a finishing round in the end with apivar and
post the results here for us to see.
Walter
littlewolfapiaries.com

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