lejustemilieu wrote:bham wrote: Uh, can you explain that? The interest of putting pesticides in a hive ???
Simply, to kill a small beast that destroys the apiaries, and which is called varroa ....
So if I read correctly, varoa is a mite that parasites bees.
Does this mean that the pesticide (acaricide) used in the hives is supposed to be selective and therefore only affect the varroa which is on the back of the bee and not the bee itself?
Do we have good reason to believe that?
Or do we know nothing about it and we play sorcerer's apprentices?
For more info and photos of the Beast using a scanning electron microscope:
http://perso.orange.fr/insectes.net/varroa/var2.html