Fumidil B - Rare as rocking horse muck

wbchive · Sep 5, 2009

Nobody has any until mid/late September at the earliest, which could be too late if the weather turns cold. I'm squirting the bees with Vitafeed Gold which purports to be almost as good as Fumidil B at Nosema control. Does anybody have any experience of Vitafeed Gold and it's efficacy, please?

Steve

peteinwilts · Sep 5, 2009

wbchive said:
Nobody has any until mid/late September at the earliest,

Steve

Today I was quoted in about 2 months time

Black Comb · Sep 5, 2009

Do your bees have Nosema?

wbchive · Sep 5, 2009

PeterS said:
Do your bees have Nosema?

I don't know. They look well, but last Autumn I had four colonies looking well before nosema killed them over the Winter.

Steve

Frisbee · Sep 5, 2009

Use thymol in your syrup. Also there was an interesting thread on the You-know-who forum about using chlorinated bleach in syrup for the same purpose...and stopping it from fermenting/growing mould too.

But I didn't go there and see it :ack2:

Frisbee

JCBrum · Sep 5, 2009

I am told Nosema Apis is endemic, with Nosema Ceranae (sp?) spreading. (Spring Convention Lecture) and only two significant remedies.

1. Fumidil-B, but worries about resistance build-up.

2. Thymol widely reported to help keep effects to a minimum.

Perhaps Bcrazy knows something from his studies ???

JC.