the queen has just started to lay, there is no percolating brood, the mites are all the bees ... what can be want more!
my family is located in a favorable phase for quite a treat with ' oxalic acid.
oxalic acid: it works, is relatively well tolerated by the bees, does not contaminate the honey, it's cheap and easy to use and then is allowed in organic farming.
would seem the perfect product.
fact, as also noted in an editorial in the number Raffaele Cirone three quarters of 2010 Apimondia Italy, the oxalic acid is successfully used in beekeeping for over 20 years, the cra bologna and disseminate the study 's use, is available in several regions of health plans, associations and consortia promoting the Bee, etc.. etc.. etc..
but something last April has created chaos. the Veterinary Service of ASL Sienna has heavily fined a beekeeper who used it. since then it seems that the upper floors have noticed that something did not return: there is authorized to market a product based on oxalic acid.
is simple to explain why that company would have the convenience of spending money (from what I've heard about € 500,000) to authorize a product that costs little more than nothing?
and then what? wait till the cows come home, even if it seems that something is moving, and to kill our bees or ...
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