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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DISEASE & PEST CONTROL => Topic started by: Stan on March 01, 2006, 06:40:05 pm

Title: Mosquitoes Fogger effect ?
Post by: Stan on March 01, 2006, 06:40:05 pm

How serious is the use of misquito foggers to bees in the range area?

Are some chemicals better or worst for use in them?

thanks, Stan

Title: Mosquitoes Fogger effect ?
Post by: Michael Bush on March 01, 2006, 10:35:51 pm

>How serious is the use of misquito foggers to bees in the range area?

If you fog in the daytime you'll kill the bees who pass through it.  If you fog at night you'll kill the mosquitoes with little effect on the bees.

>Are some chemicals better or worst for use in them?

I only know of the chemicals that COME with them.

Title: Re: Mosquitoes Fogger effect ?
Post by: JP on March 05, 2006, 07:01:43 pm

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How serious is the use of misquito foggers to bees in the range area?

Are some chemicals better or worst for use in them?

thanks, Stan

Most all chemicals are highly toxic to bees.

Title: Mosquitoes Fogger effect ?
Post by: Apis629 on March 06, 2006, 12:29:00 am

If you read the back of the container it usually has a ratio of how much of the pesticide kills how many of the target insect.  That's usually pretty effective in establishing the toxicity of a given chemical.  I've never had any bad experience with bees and fogger despite in the summer, if you want to be outside around dusk you MUST use it.  Lately it's been getting overuse with the whole scare of West Nile Virus and the dying pigons.