Bill Truesdell wrote:

> This is not a comment about Peter's observations, just that his is only
> one data point, and there is a lot out there that indicates otherwise.

Bill is right - and I offered it as such (and I have links to the apis.ch
site on our website).  I now only use oxalic on colonies returning from the
heather when the weather is rather cooler than I would like for using my
preferred treatment of thymol crystals, but this was in the early days of
varroa when I was having anxiety attacks about my chosen path!  When
everyone else around here was using Apistan, I decided to go down the 'soft'
route for a number of reasons - but I suffered some very long winters
waiting to find out whether I had made a good decision.

Peter Edwards
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