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Date: | Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:31:36 -0400 |
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I don't think that any fabricated "stories" of misuse causing resistance have been circulated by anyone with a profit motive, as any "bad PR" would tend to move people away from the substance at issue to other treatment options.
But it clearly did happen - when the off-label use consists of the installation of cattle ear tags into bee colonies, and the ear tags are not removed promptly, then the dose is absolutely certain to slowly go down. Lower doses over longer exposure periods mean survival of slightly resistant mites, and the eventual "selection" for that resistance - congrats, you just bred a better mite.
Do we know this happened? Yes, multiple reports of bee inspectors randomly finding forgotten ear tags were common. No one has pointed a finger and shouted "J'Accuse!", but the specific abuse was pretty well-known, and disappointing.
Could "propaganda" be exaggerating the extent of the abuse and the resistance levels created? Certainly, but the presence of Veto-Pharma, ApiVar maker, in the US and Canada has been ghost-like for decades. They don't have an office this side of the atlantic, and only recently hired an Amerique du Nord sales rep, a Ms. Leach. So, what shadowy figures might be planting false and scurrilous falsehoods about ethical beekeepers for all this time?
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