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While Formic Acid is found in honey and ants, this does not make FORMIC
ACID a benign substance.
 
It is an acid that burns flesh without pain.
 
When you can smell the fumes you have done damage to your lungs.
 
Many beekeepers have experienced loss queenloss using formic.
 
This is not a MITE PANACEA.
 
FORMIC ACID is dangerous stuff to fool around with even if it is CHEAP.
 
My fear is that because Formic is so cheap , beekeepers will forgo
 
forgo testing for mites.
 
Don't be too hasty to run the border with Formic Acid.
 
The jury is still out on FORMIC ACID.
 
 
regards
 
Peter Wilson
 
 
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Peter;
Having suffered from tracheal mites for the last two years, and having
treated with formic this year, using pads, I have to say that formic is
great, in our case formic worked far better than menthol. I will
definetly be using formic again, by the way queen loss was negligable.
The hives are doing better this year than they have in the last three,
and it sure hasn't had anything to do with the weather. IMHO.
 
 
TPLR HONEY FARMS
Tim Townsend
RR 1 Stony Plain Alberta
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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Ian Watson wrote:
 
> On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Richard Chapin wrote:
>
> > >>Does anyone on the BEE-L know how the quest to have formic acid approved for
> > >>use in the U.S. doing?
> >etc.
> > >I attended a seminar a few weeks ago and the consensus among the scientist
> > >attending, was that formic acid would be approved, at least for limited use,
> >etc
> > We were told at our association meeting that EPA was holding up the
> > approval of formic acid and would require many months before approval.  I
> > wrote to my congressman, he wrote to EPA, & they responded that the
> > approved producer (will look up the name after EAS next week, if anyone
> > wants it -- think it is Mann Lake) had not yet submitted a proposal.  I
> > called the producer, and was told that they had submitted two proposals,
> > both rejected (EPA doesn't recognize rejected proposals), and that a third
> > proposal was imminent.  When asked if we might look for approval by this
> > fall, the answer was: don't count on it.
> > Dick Chapin
> > Montrose, PA
> > Susquehanna Beekeepers' Assn.
> >
> If you don't mind using Formic Acid prior to your governments approval, i
> would suggest that any of you who live close to Canada, find some way of
> buying it here and then take it back....It is a valuable treatment...and i
> dont understand what the delay is.....Formic acid is in Honey
> anyways....and formic ants are full of it...maybe Big Brother should ban
> those things too...
> Just my 2 cents worth...2.6 Canadian..<grin>
>
>                           Ian Watson
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