You'll have to excuse me if this is old hat, but it's new for me
Bayer CropScience is going to commercialize a new varroa control product. The first authorisations in Europe are programmed for 2012.
The product,based on the new technology "Entostat", combines a food quality powder (refined from the wax taken from a particular variety of palm tree) with thymol. The powder is applied to the tops of the frames and fixes itself to the bees' wings by electrostatic attraction.
When these bees move around in the hive,the powder is spread over the other bees and over all the surfaces,including the brood.