Tom Barrett wrote:
>

> But Danish, Dutch and German beekeepers seem to be handling varroa without
> fluvalinate, flumethrin and coumaphos. Some IPM treatments use chemicals
> like oxalic and formic acid, but these are chemicals of a relatively more
> benign type and with little or no residual effects on wax and honey. And of
> course FGMO is a food grade product.



Tom,

LOL : this is definitely NOT true !
In Belgium (as well as in Holland) beekeepers have been using
Apistan (fluvalinate) with success for approx. 15 years, until
the mite wun the battle by becoming resistent to fluvalinate.
Now the official Belgian beekeeping orgnizations recommend
(+ sponsor) the use of Apivar (amitraz) + Perizin (coumaphos).
Yeak.

It was not before last year that more beekeepers moved to formic acid.
Recently oxalic acid is considered to be the silver bullet.

cheers,

Hugo (half a bee)


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