"A product called Honey B Healthy
which "contains pure essential oils
(spearmint and lemon grass oils)"

The difficulty with essential oils is that sometimes they work and sometimes
they don't.  This is understandable once one considers that each essential
oil contains dozens of chemicals, and they interact with one another in ways
that differ based on humidity, temperature, dosage, etc.  IMHO, treating
with essential oils (only) is a good way to ensure that your bees will
slowly die from Varroa damage.

Save yourself a lot of grief and get a good book such as Beekeeping a
Practical Guide, by Richard Bonney; Hot-to-do-it: Book of Beekeeping, by
Richard Taylor; or The Beekeeper's Handbook, by Diana Sammataro.

I prefer the latter, but it is unquestionably 'heavier' than the Bonney
book.  Everyone should own the Taylor book, but it should be used as a
supplement to, and not a replacement for, the books by Bonney or Sammataro.

Lloyd
Lloyd Spear, Owner Ross Rounds, Inc.
Manufacturers of Ross Rounds Comb
Honey Equipment, Sundance Pollen Traps
and Custom Printer of Sundance Labels.

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