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foundart ◴[] No.44434971[source]
TLDR: "According to a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server this month, nearly all the dead colonies tested positive for bee viruses spread by parasitic mites. Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal."
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1. spookie ◴[] No.44436363[source]
You don't need that stuff. Oxalic acid or formic acid does the job.