Bill writes:
The second is that small cell is implied to be the reason
for success while FGMO is applied to control mites. It is a
given that FGMO with screened bottoms is a way to control
mites, depending on the location and the number of
applications. It knocks them down. It does not kill 
them. There are many other treatments that do the same
thing including wintergreen oil and tobacco or sumac smoke.
It cannot be said here that cell size is the reason for the
control of mites. It is the pesticide, in this case, FGMO.

Reply:
Bill, you are right in that those doing half-? small cell,
and saying it is the small cell, when it is other stuff
they are still crutched to, is not small cell control. For
when you modify and change what is suggested process/field
mangement to do with zero treatments,and change the
parameters of what you are doing and how........you have
changed the game and therefore are into another one. Same
with talkers and doers, and fence splitters.

This is why those into wanting to do treatments on the
organicbeekeepers discussion list are continuously asked to
leave and go elsewhere, normally going to beesource.com
where discussion to them is not restraining for so-called
natural treatments of acids and essential oils, and that is
sad in a way, but more for discussion in a way also. 

Yet those going zero treatments is growing and it is being
physically done, and the work isn't hard, just labor
consuming in first years.

Regards to you,

Dee A. Lusby


 
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