Usage
- Always follow label instructions
- Correct dosage
- Colony strength
- Approprite time of the season
- Appropriate temperatures
- Check to see if your treatment worked
- Rotate/combine treatments to avoid resistance
New Technologies
- RNA Interference (RNAi)
- Designed to silence specific genes
- Remebee TM, RemebeePro TM
- Defense against viral pathogens
- Potential for controlling Varroa and Nosema spp.
- Potential issues
- Frequent reapplication likely necessary
- Only partial gene silencing
- Pathogens/pests quickly evolving (targeting only a portion of a gene so easier to develop resistance).