OXALIC ACID: Effective & Easu On Bees, But. . .

摘要

Years ago, while still working on my graduate degree, I met Dr. Marion Ellis, a professor of Entomology at the University of Nebraska. I was still very "green" because it was my second year as a beekeeper. I am sure, as either newbies or seasoned beekeepers, that you remember what it was like when you first entered into the beekeeping fold. Do you recall your first hives? Do you remember your excitement at going to your first meetings or lectures, and the resulting 5,862 questions that you asked? There were the magazine articles you perused, the books you read (and re-read), and the catalogs you poured over. The contraptions pictured in the catalogs left me wondering, "What in the heck do you use that for?!?" Remember ordering your first equipment and trying to sound intelligent while doing so? "Yes, I would like a brood excluder please, and I need one drone and some of that comb frames with wired boards, I mean bars." Do you remember the good ole days when you stumbled around the bee yard in awe of the activity level and slightly intimidated about interfering with their important comings and goings by opening the hives?