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To: tejek who wrote (720781)6/12/2013 3:06:20 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 1586540
 
Hi tejek; Here a beekeeper shows how to avoid colony collapse disorder and also avoid having to give any medications whatsoever to your bees. The article also gives some hints on what kinds of chemicals are in the honey you buy in stores:

The Ways of Winter
Thom Trusewicz

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I’ve spoken with a few of our beekeepers who do not want to put chemicals in their hives. They are going to see if the bees can tough it out. I would like to agree with them. A chemical free hive is most desirable but the reality is I can only imagine what can happen to bees if un-medicated.

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First we are putting all sorts of chemicals into our hives. We are supposed to have a grace period (15 days) where we do not place honey supers on the hive until the major traces of chemicals are gone. That means no supers until 15 days after the nosema medicine jars have been removed, the terramycin is gone and the mite strips have been removed.

That’s a good idea, but bees are busy. Can you be sure that stuff from the medicated brood boxes never makes their way up to the honey supers? Let’s say you smoke your bees and they eat their fill preparing to evacuate their hive. When the smoke clears do you think that they put the honey back in the same place where they got it?

orsba.org

-- Carl

P.S. By the way, the above article is quite well known in the beekeeping community. You'll find lots of talk about it. Most people won't do it because they think of their bees as little pets.
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