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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Br. Adamson" data-source="post: 4705" data-attributes="member: 411"><p>We have used an asurequality approved homebrew version of Apilife Var since 2012 in conjunction with a winter oxalic dribble. Ours uses the thymol crystals from Api Services in Wanganui melted with coconut oil. It will be a really useful supplement between synthetic treatments when used on strong hives with lots of bees and elevated temperatures due to brood raising. Don't use it in any queen cell finishers as the thymol seems to get into the royal jelly and the poor wee larvae crawls away from the royal jelly, and the bees cap off the biggest queen cells you have ever seen. So you get suspicious and open them up to discover a thymol - nuked larvae at the very end. We would cut a wafer in half and put four half-wafers in a circle between the two brood boxes, so there is an even distribution of the fumes over the brood frames. That will kill a few Varroa for about 8 days i expect.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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