Apiguard in winter
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Not really.
Ther was the original Swiss ( ? ) recommendations advising against multiple treatments and there have been studies done showing treated colonies being a small percentage weaker on the whole the following spring having been drizzled in the winter ( Italian if I remember right but cant be sure and certainly cant be arsed to digg out a reference at this time of night ! ) but the most dammning evidence for me is personal obsevation of oxalic trickling being the final nail in the coffin to bees with dysentry - ok they may have died anyway but try it for yourself, death is pretty rapid for bees with both dysentry ( prob nosema ) and an oxalic trickle
