I have a bit of a question about the text at this site: Specifically, the authors mention that wintergreen, spearmint, and peppermint oils have proven successful, that spearmint patties were propolized, but not wintergreen, teatree, or patchouli oils. The question has a small interest to me because I have a large bottle of peppermint oil left over from a prior experiment in controlling varroa (I didn't run a no-apistan control). It seemed to work quite well. Does this mean that no research was done with peppermint oil? I assume we could just use it in the same amount as wintergreen or spearmint oil. Anyone have any information about it? Curiously, I didn't hear much from folks since the original posting here. Does this mean that everyone is quietly going out and buying the oils and seeing what will happen? Or is this a new idea with promising preliminary results? Just curious- Phil Wood [log in to unmask] > > Brian R Tucker wrote: > > > > Could someone please repost the use of Essential Oils for the use of mite > > controll. That is how much in sugar water or if used in grease patties how > > much in there. And what type of oil is best (Spearmint,Wintergreen ect..) > > Thanks > > The info is at this site: > http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/varroa.htm > > -Barry > > -- > Barry Birkey > West Chicago, Illinois USA > [log in to unmask] > http://www.birkey.com