>Why? Because the old way of trying to kill mites with chemicals is bad,
>that's why. It's bad for the bees, selects for chemical resistant mites,
>and it's bad for the hives and the honey, which end up with chemical
>residues. What will you do with your honey if the buyers say they won't buy
>honey with matricide residues?

there has been no known resistance by varroa to formic or oxalic acid and no
problems in Canada with residues in honey!

formic & oxalic are in wide use in the U.S. despite all the reasons you have
said why they were dangerous for use in bee hives in years gone past on 
BEE-L. The
days of Apistan & checkmite are done for most commercial beekeepers but
those full page adds still suck in hobby beekeepers.

Everything the beekeeper needs to know to control mites without harsh
chemicals is on BEE-L if one reads between the lines.

U.S. honey was put on a three year what by the FDA a few years ago and
passed with flying colors.

You and many others have sang the same old song for years. Based on a few
isolated cases and many unproven rumors.

Formic and oxalic in bulk are cheap. hell of a lot cheaper to treat than buy 
expensive queens and keep buying expensive queens and test each hive to make 
sure the queens are truly varroa tolerant.

I have tested I believe all the claimed varroa tolerant lines before with 
added varroa pressure.

True the search for a truly varroa tolerant bee is important but like I have 
said in prior posts best left to exports and in the words of Tom Glenn you 
posted you have to keep the lines pure TODAY.

Hopefully one day will not be the case.

bob

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