Mississippi Business Journal » hive http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 EPA exempts products to fight varroa mite in honeybees http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/11/epa-exempts-products-to-fight-varroa-mite-in-honeybees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epa-exempts-products-to-fight-varroa-mite-in-honeybees http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/11/epa-exempts-products-to-fight-varroa-mite-in-honeybees/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:18:44 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=66456 JACKSON — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved two emergency exemptions to help Mississippi beekeepers control damaging varroa mite infestations in honeybee colonies. The products are HopGuard, manufactured by BetaTec Hop Products, and Apivar, manufactured by Veto-Pharma S.A. HopGuard cardboard strips treated with potassium salt of hop beta acids may be inserted in honeybee [...]

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