From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:36:31 +0100
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: PDB and spray residues

Hi Dee

Thanks for info about PDB, and that it can be watered out quite a lot, if
not all. Fortunately I have handled my wax that way and stopped using PDB
many years ago. ANtibiotics I make a little question mark about as what
I've heard it breaks down very fast, but the parts it gets into I've never
heard what they do or what parts it becomes after breakdown. Most crop
sprays break down quite fast today what I've heard, but not all I've
understood. And you always has to ask yourself what happens with rest
products. They spray here too, the farmers, but the crops nowadays which
bees fly on are few. Mainlyleft are grassing land with clover I hope they
don't spray and of course forest country with undervegeation and trees of
different kinds.

Erik

>PDB moth crystalls are a mitacide in its own right used for fumigation to
>keep wax moths from reproducing in combs. It is considered a dinosour
>chemical from days of old.
>
>It can be water bathed out quite a bit though, as it vaporizes readily under
>heat and through hot water bath. But I doubt that you can get it all out,
>but most I would imagine.