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Thyme oil - varroa mite
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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 12644" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I am all in favour of people experimenting with varoa control. One day someone will come up with something useful although there are a lot of so-called organic treatments that either don't work or only work under very specific conditions. Some of them are far more toxic to the bees than conventional chemical treatments. Unfortunately our conventional treatments are not working as well as they used to partly because of resistance and also I think because of the buildup of viruses which means that it now takes far fewer varoa to kill a hive than it used to.</p><p>Breeding hives that are resistant to varoa is probably the only long-term solution but until everybody does it, given the free mating habits of honeybees is very hard for anyone to make any real gains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 12644, member: 207"] I am all in favour of people experimenting with varoa control. One day someone will come up with something useful although there are a lot of so-called organic treatments that either don't work or only work under very specific conditions. Some of them are far more toxic to the bees than conventional chemical treatments. Unfortunately our conventional treatments are not working as well as they used to partly because of resistance and also I think because of the buildup of viruses which means that it now takes far fewer varoa to kill a hive than it used to. Breeding hives that are resistant to varoa is probably the only long-term solution but until everybody does it, given the free mating habits of honeybees is very hard for anyone to make any real gains. [/QUOTE]
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