Prompted by several articles about the potential negative outcome of
treating with fumagillin, in two weeks I will start a small toxicity study
on fourteen colonies (winter bees) set on hive scales.

 

Eventual publication of the results will hopefully help educate a few
readers.

 

I would welcome comments on the proposal document, from anyone interested in
seeing it.  

 

As a retired veterinarian I have been troubled by the standardization in
instruction books, of using this product, a non-remedy and evidently harmful
to the bees. 

 

Also, the misguidance of blaming diarrhea on Nosema, is just silly
interpretive advise - that seems shamefully replicated from one instruction
piece to the next.   

 

Don Coats


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