How to Mix Terramycin for Honeybees
Keep your honey flowing by looking after the health of your honey bees. Foulbrood disease in bees can be treated, and its spread slowed by giving the bees Terramycin. No other product for treating bees has received approval for use in the U.S. While healthful for the bees, avoid giving Terramycin to your hives four weeks before or after nectar flow, and discard any honey produced during the time you medicate the bees. To give this product to your bees, you should combine it with powdered sugar or a sugar syrup. Consult your state's agriculture department for any laws regulating or restricting the use of Terramycin for bees.
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Things You'll Need
- Terramycin soluble powder (one 6.4 oz. package per 16 colonies)
- Powdered sugar or sugar and water
Instructions
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Determine the number of packages to use by estimating one 6.4 oz. package per 16 colonies of bees.
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Make a dusting powder with your Terramycin. Combine each 6.4 oz. packet of Terramycin soluble powder with 2.7 lbs. of powdered sugar.
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Alternatively, prepare a syrup dosage. Mix 125 lbs. of granulated sugar with 125 lbs. of water with each 6.4 oz. package of Terramycin used.
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Feed your colonies either 2 lbs. of the sugar syrup dosage or 2 tbsp. (1 oz.) of the dusting powder.
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Repeat the dosage two more times, waiting four or five days between doses.
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