Midnite Bee wrote:
 
> Bee farmers in southern U.S. tell me to use Hall's Ice Blue cough drops
>      for hive treatment [ 4 drops at 12 mgs a drop].  Bees consume the
>      drops.  They swear it works.Is this so.
 
Been there, done that.
No.
They still had mites- tracheal, but I never heard them cough the whole
winter.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, ME