Thymol Based Entrance Block for Varroa

[rossbyjove]

Post a link to a study showing that planting thyme around hives has an effect on varroa levels inside hives. I can't find one. The only reference I could find was someone in the US on a "homesteading" website saying that because thymol treats varroa and thyme produces thymol then it must be good, but that's no argument at all.

James

Well it's an argument in the making......

 

[Beegarden]

Bees love Thyme anyway, so there's nothing lost by planting it around the hives.

 

[jimmiestan]

<Long ago now but I believe Nitrogen Tri-Iodide was produced in my school chemistry lab by a couple of sixth formers. Would that be worthy of field trials?> -- I did that at school in Sheffield in 1966, ammonium tri-iodide, "exploding" doorhandle and footprints on to the assembly stage.......