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#1 ·
I may be starting something that has been asked. I would like to know do you use Fumagilin or not? I received two packages and I always treat them with a half gallon of sugar syrup. Is this wrong?????:
 
#5 ·
Is this wrong?????:
Right or wrong is not really the right question, as that's just something in the mind of somebody who has a set of rules they follow.

People here, are chemical free. People on a different part of Beesource, are not. Using, or not using, sugar or various chemicals, is neither wrong, nor right. It's just treatment free, or not treatment free. Which is simply a matter of personal choice the beekeeper makes, depending on his goals.
 
#6 ·
Thank you camero7 and oldtimer, I consider myself chemical free. Althought last year I lost a lot of hives and got some packages to restart. That is why I posting the question to see if it was worth using something or if last year was just a bad year.
 
#7 ·
I consider myself chemical free.
Chemical free is not the same thing as treatment free. Not on this forum anyhow. There is a sticky post at the top of this forum that lists all the things that are considered treatments. It may surprise you. I know it surprised me. Try one of the other forums and the discussion may be more enlightening, but on this forum they really cannot discuss pros and cons of a particular treatment.

HTH

Rusty
 
#9 ·
>I would like to know do you use Fumagilin or not?

Besides killing off the bacteria that protects the gut of the bee from Nosema, it causes birth defects in mammals (we are mammals).

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesnosema.htm
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033188

Try a search on:
teratogen fumadil
or
teratogen fumidil

te·rat·o·gen [tuh-rat-uh-juhn, -jen, ter-uh-tuh-] a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.

A couple of lists of teratogens on which fumidl is listed:
http://www.purdue.edu/rem/ih/terat.htm
http://www.ttuhsc.edu/admin/safety/lab/Teratogens.pdf
 
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