How to use the 6.5 oz of Terramycin

[paulnewbee1]

I have to treat some old comb my inspector said use terramycin it say one pkg of 6.5 oz will treat up to 50 feedings

how do I mix and with what

Thanks

[livetrappingbymatt]

i think it's 6.5 to 4lbs of powdered sugar.
not sure if that's the right mix?
bob

[Korny's Korner]

1 package to 2# powdered sugar.
If you have a coffee mill make your own powdered sugar. I think it is better.
I mix 1# powdered sugar + 1# milled sugar + a table spoon of regular sugar to 1 package of TM. Less clumpy and spreads better, I feel regular powdered sugar is just to fine.

Korny

[carbide]

Yeah, 1 - 6.5 oz package to 2 pounds of powered sugar.

[beemandan]

As routine application for the prevention for EFB/AFB, I wouldn't use it. If, on the other hand, you get a good epidemic of EFB spreading about your beeyard it can bring it to a halt.

If you get a single hive in your yard with AFB, then I'd use it on everybody in the yard as a precaution.

Keep an extra hive tool and, if you use them, gloves so that if you find an infected hive you can change tools after opening the infected hive.

Fortunately I haven't needed it in a long time. If my memory serves me any instructions on the packet are unclear/poor.

From the Brushy Mtn catalog, mix a 6.4oz packet with 1lb 12oz of powdered sugar and dust two tablespoons around the brood nest on the tops of the frames, three times at 4 to 5 day intervals.
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[R.L. Bee]

Most of the time on this and other forums you get more infomation than you need and then I get confused. So let me throw some confussion in this mix.I believe there are two types of Terramycin is this correct? TM 10 And TM25 TM25 is the pure form. The Terramycin that you buy at most farm supply storers is TM 10.The directions on the label says to use 200mg per colony witch don't mean a whole lot to anyone without a gram scale so I need my figures in TSP or TBSP. Most of the time I don't need the whole bag mixed up at one time so I came up with this mixture would some one please check it out to see if it is correct? The packet I am using says it holds 10 grams of oxytetracycline (fancy name for Terramycin) So that tells me that is the TM10 so I mix 10 teaspoons of the TM with 15 teaspoons of the powered sugar dust 1 teaspoon full over top bars at 4 to 5 day intervals three times.I have used Terramycin in the past for previnative measures but will not any more unless I have a problem in my hives or I here of a problem in nearby hives.

[bjerm2]

I hope these sites help you with your mixture

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/4h/beekeep/enemofb.htm

http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/Disorders/Terramycin.htm

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP596.pdf

Dan

[Axtmann]

If I would use Terramicine only one time and they find it during a honey test all my honey would end up on a dump. I also would loose all my customers and prosecuted from the government.

Why you are not taking antibiotics several days during the year just in case you might get an infection?

[Aspera]

I don't think that that translated very well Axtman. Maybe you could try to clarify your statement.

[R.L. Bee]

Thanks bjerm for the info seams I was completly wrong with my mixture.

[dickm]

First, Terra isn't used to "treat comb." That statement makes it seem that you expect to treat the comb, 1 time, and be done with worrying about AFB. It will do nothing for comb since the AFB, if it's there, will be in the spore form. Nothing will kill it. The Terra is fed to the bees and only kills the vegetative (?) stage of the disease in those particular bees. It does not rid the hive of AFB. It can erupt again or in another hive. Using it as a precaution has led to resistant forms of the disease. Some bees are resistant because they remove the infectioon early before it sporifies. (Hygienic bees).
This is what Axtmann was referring to.

I'd suggest just not using it until you see disease. Some states require burning. Learn to spot the "scale" in your used comb. "Don't holler before you're hurt!"

Dickm