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[Etton]

I received the following message from the Bee Connected web site, anyone any experience of this spray?

Distance from Hive 1 km

Crop being sprayed Oilseed Rape

Flowering margin No

Pesticide(s) being sprayed tau-fluvalinate

 

[Amari]

I received the following message from the Bee Connected web site, anyone any experience of this spray?

Distance from Hive 1 km

Crop being sprayed Oilseed Rape

Flowering margin No

Pesticide(s) being sprayed tau-fluvalinate

http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/608.htm
eg Apilife Var

 

[Erichalfbee]

http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/608.htm
eg Apilife Var

No. Apistan

 

[Etton]

Very technical, I suppose my question is should I close my hives onnsaturday being the day bee connected is due to spray. Presumably most other bee keepers with apiaries near OSR will have similar spraying with the same chemical.

 

[hemo]

It won't hurt to close them in the night before for a morning or day as long as they have ventilation and room to move about.
Are you able to get amore accurate time scale of spraying or know the farm having the spraying done to find out more info from them ?

 

[Amari]

No. Apistan

Oops, Sorry!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Apistan Apiguard Apilife Var Apivar
ApiApiApi. It sure is confusing

 

[Murox]

Thymol based treatments –
Apiguard, Api Life Var – (not to be confused with Apivar.)

Chemical Treatments -
Amitraz is the active ingredient in both Apitraz and Apivar.
MAQS - FORMIC ACID 68.2g
Apistan – Tau-fluvalinate 10.3% w/w. some resistance has been found.

Apibioxal – vaporised Oxalic based treatment.

 

[The Poot]

Apistan Apiguard Apilife Var Apivar
ApiApiApi. It sure is confusing

In the words of Ken Dodd “ I thank the Lord that I’ve been blessed, with more than my share of Api ness...”

 

[Worker bee]

I don't buy brands anymore it's much cheaper to make my own treatments. All ingredients available online

 

[Etton]

Farmer replied said spraying at 6.00am

 

[hemo]

I don't buy brands anymore it's much cheaper to make my own treatments. All ingredients available online

And none registered/approved or tested for use on food producing livestock.

 

[Worker bee]

And none registered/approved or tested for use on food producing livestock.

All are tested and approved on livestock I get them from the same suppliers as the named brands? All are available stockists online to anyone?

 

[hemo]

Farmer replied said spraying at 6.00am

That's good you can block the entrances Friday p.m, then remove a few hours later before temps rise.

 

[hemo]

All are tested and approved on livestock I get them from the same suppliers as the named brands?

You said you make your own up, that's not the same thing.

 

[Worker bee]

You said you make your own up, that's not the same thing.

Same thing as what? It's totally the same thing. All you have to know is the ingredients and quantity and get them in the same capacity? Its the same as baking a cake you just need the right ingredients. The only difference is that I pay pence per hive you pay in pounds. It's not the same if you pay for names no but the molecular structure doesn't change when you add a name or trademark

 

[hemo]

Making up your own concoction is not vmd approved for use on livestock and pretty sure a bee inspector would be intrigued about self certified quack remedies and no batch numbers that can be traced.

 

[tonyofarr]

I agree with hemo on this, also a good productive colony is worth hundreds of pounds and a treatment of say apivar is the cost of a jar of honey, so not a lot of money when you look at the big picture.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Making up your own concoction is not vmd approved for use on livestock and pretty sure a bee inspector would be intrigued about self certified quack remedies and no batch numbers that can be traced.

Beekeepers making their own varroa treatment from OTC Amitraz were accused somewhere of treating their bees with sheep dip I seem to remember
Not good PR