No evidence to support the use of glycerol–oxalic acid mixtures delivered via paper towel for controlling Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata: Varroidae) mites in the Southeast United States
Abstract. A significant amount of researcher and practitioner effort has focused on developing new chemical controls for the parasitic Varroa destructor mi
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this seams to be a bit of a weird study. maybe you science guys can help me out here.
their graph seams to show the oxalic acid working but claim "no statically evidence". can someone explain the math on that?
however this whole study is weird.
first of all its shop towels not paper towels (blue shop towels are synthetic).
but the big ones is that they are using shop towels which even randy oliver went away from some ~5 years ago (now its swedish sponge, maximizer pads, even cardboard strips). ie they are testing something thats known to work poorly.
also only testing at low acid rates (the highest they tested was 18g), similar to the early testing many years ago now. these days its around 50g.
the whole study is on a method that was only a step in the evolution quite some time ago.
if anything this study reinforces not using out of date methods that have long since replaced with better ones.