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<blockquote data-quote="JohnF" data-source="post: 11819" data-attributes="member: 233"><p>I can't remember what I had for dinner last weekend . . but I do remember your oxalic trials [USER=13]@Alastair[/USER] . If I recall, you had issues with them being too wet and essentially dripping? ie they weren't dried before use. I'm not throwing stones, but more to point out that there have been so many mixtures by beekeepers - either deliberately or inadvertently when some couldn't calculate percentages or the difference of weight/volume and volume/volume. Not to mention soaking/drying/not drying.</p><p>I am on record with others, saying when I come to try OA and strips then I'm going to follow [USER=73]@Otto[/USER] 's protocol. You should be able to find his file in the Document section and I have passed his details on to a number of beekeepers.</p><p></p><p>I'm a hobbiest so I can't comment on the work involved with your scale [USER=30]@tristan[/USER] . . . but without Bayvarol and relying on other treatments, what is your current hive loss to varroa or lack of alternative treatment for same?</p><p></p><p>I would say 'at risk of repeating myself' but then again, there's no risk because I definitely *am* repeating it - I firmly believe the use of oxalic acid strips would have been an ideal beekeeper-funded research project, had beekeepers not voted down the levy.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, an economic modelling paper has just been published by Pike and others on the cost of hive losses:</p><p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2022.2146527" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2022.2146527 </a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnF, post: 11819, member: 233"] I can't remember what I had for dinner last weekend . . but I do remember your oxalic trials [USER=13]@Alastair[/USER] . If I recall, you had issues with them being too wet and essentially dripping? ie they weren't dried before use. I'm not throwing stones, but more to point out that there have been so many mixtures by beekeepers - either deliberately or inadvertently when some couldn't calculate percentages or the difference of weight/volume and volume/volume. Not to mention soaking/drying/not drying. I am on record with others, saying when I come to try OA and strips then I'm going to follow [USER=73]@Otto[/USER] 's protocol. You should be able to find his file in the Document section and I have passed his details on to a number of beekeepers. I'm a hobbiest so I can't comment on the work involved with your scale [USER=30]@tristan[/USER] . . . but without Bayvarol and relying on other treatments, what is your current hive loss to varroa or lack of alternative treatment for same? I would say 'at risk of repeating myself' but then again, there's no risk because I definitely *am* repeating it - I firmly believe the use of oxalic acid strips would have been an ideal beekeeper-funded research project, had beekeepers not voted down the levy. Interestingly, an economic modelling paper has just been published by Pike and others on the cost of hive losses: [URL='https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2022.2146527']https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2022.2146527 [/URL] [/QUOTE]
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