Nige.Coll
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2013
- Messages
- 1,778
- Reaction score
- 604
- Location
- East Midlands
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- some + a few more
Vmd are tossers, they'll happily let you put organophosphates in your hive if you go through a vet and claim to need caumaphos but insist on this ridiculous message that only oxalic acid in the form of apibioxal can legally be used. It's a nonsense and obviously so, no one has been prosecuted for using generic oxalic acid, it's policed by sbi's who will mostly be using generic oxalic acid yet we carry on letting them dictate this farce to us forcing generally honest and law abiding individuals into being slightly deceitful. I can not fathom why we let the situation continue.
I'm sick of hearing about Api RipOff at the moment and how it's about time the VMD clamped down on these beekeepers using non approved Oxalic Acid.
You can put thymol into syrup to stop mould but if you mention nosema it's illegal, bloody stupid.