Thymol Recipe For Bees 👉 Mixing thymol with other aromatic substances decreases its melting point ie. Dissolve the thymol in the alcohol.

Add 2-3 dessertspoons of alcohol to the crystals. In a recent study it was found that the use of thyme essential oil in bee colonies has increased the mortality rate of 100. Warm to speed up dissolving.
This increases storage life and reduces the chance of dysentery during the winter when bees are confined.
Used 80g thymol crystals in 120ml of veg oil used hard cardboard strips 250x35x2mm rather than oasis as a pad and soaked cardboard 24 hrs in mix enough cardboard strips to put 2 in each hive and 1 in nuc. They can evaporate too quickly in warm weather and kill bees and brood since the lethal concentration of thymol to bees is only some 2-4 times that which kills mites. This is a great treatment for summerfall after honey has been pulled. In this video I show you how to mix thymol cry.