G'day... thanks for dropping by. ;-))
As it happens in Life we(royal) get very comfortable with what works and often
will defend that position vigorously. Yet change happens, ocassionly causing
us(royal) to pause to think on the place of our practices/beliefs against that
wave of "this is the new way, your way is redundant against improved methods".
So it is I throw a topic out there in search of veracity for the statement "you
are poisoning bees".
The backstory (paraphrased) goes like;
A very small part of my offline interest in developments around apiary
management is to accept invites to seminars/workshops. It was during one
of these engagements over the Easter break I delivered my rote "How to
succeed at Rescue for Cutouts and Trapouts".
All went well up until the point on producing the spraybottle loaded with
Phenol(tm). A heckler - every crowd has one - interjected with "you are killing
the bees using that poison". Ignoring the temptation to focus on his freshly
ironed beesuit (in denying (eltalia) speakup) I was making some progress
through heavy yards in quieting the interjector who's main claim to fame was
his qualification as an Allied Health Naturopath, g'mnt employed, up until
another spoke up to offer carbolic acid crystal use for fume boards has been
banned in Australia.
I am not aware of such a ban and so was forced to backout in using reference
to commercialy available product as an option for clearing agent.
Now not all of those are available in Australia so I was well outside my comfort
level, and so promised myself to checkout these products at the first chance.
I am surprised at what I found in just a quick logical search.
Sooo if it helps someone else *and* brings out any other points in any
discussion then I guess the only loser is to be that heckler.
References I found;
Jim (sawdustmaker) writes on clearing chemicals used;
"My bee supplier carries Beedun. It works but not as good as bee quick.
She used to carry the Bee Quick but it melts the plastic and the
manufacture refused to change the spray bottle. I have been keeping
the Beedun bottles so that when i find Bee Quick i can switch the bottles."
https://trademark.trademarkia.com/beequick-85231689.htmlFischer's trademark for BeeQuick.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=37998.0Discussion within BMA on the use of BeeQuick
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=carbolic%20acidhttps://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/butyric_acidChemists description of base compound for Phenyl/Phenol
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-phenol-and-carbolic-acid-on-basis-of-number-of-OH-groups-attached-to-benzene-ringhttp://www.apiculture.co.za/cgi-bin/books-read.pl?s=2004%20June%20-%20Harvesting%20Honey&book=pinknotes-db.txtThis American b'keep waxes lyrical on the topic of removing beeless supers
for extraction and mentions all fume board products.
Cheers...
Bill
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