Here we go again!

[Jon]

Have your say. I’ll be back soon!
Eric

Was that you in Terminator?

I know a number of beekeepers who are in denial that bees forage on hawthorn,

Mine forage on hawthorn, but not every year. I think they collect more pollen than nectar but you can get a crop from it so I am with you on that one.

The legal”gray area” of the oxalic acid situation discourages many beekeepers from using this critically important treatment.

I don't think to many worry about that. It is just a hive cleaning process after all and that is quite legal!!

I treated 21 colonies and nucs this week, total cost about 75p and most of that was for the 400g of sugar in the mix.
You can't beat a varroa treatment at a cost of under 4p per colony. I had a look today and very few mites have dropped so far. The strongest colony I have had dropped 25 so that is a result and it will probably drop some more. 25 mites could grow to 1600 between March and September and as you know, 1000 mites is in the problem area.
Eric, you are different from a lot of the pesticide headbangers in that you sensibly treat for varroa.
A lot of beekeepers are losing colonies to varroa and blaming Bayer.

When the Swedish government carried out the first population Census in the late 1900 it was assumed that the population numbered around 20 million. The Establishment went into shock when the true figure of 2 million emerged. Check it out!!

I doff my cap to you with regard to your knowledge of early 20th century Sweden. Remind me again what it has to do with bee decline.

So you reckon the british countryside is littered with empty bee boxes.