“Colony Collapse Disorder” is a new name given to an old problem in the bee community. It’s a name given to the rapid loss of adult bees in a given bee colony.
Bee keeping was first mentioned in Egypt some 4500 years ago when the title of “Sealer of Honey” was given to the beekeepers of...
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INSECTICIDAL SOAPS – A LITTLE HISTORY – A LITTLE INFO
By David B Wheeler
Insecticidal soaps have been used as insecticides since the late 1700s and perhaps even earlier. These soaps were made with fish-oil combined with sodium or potassium. Some were made with whale oil until recently, when public awareness that whales were endangered curtailed their use. Vegetable oil-based soaps, which did not have...
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