Its beekeeping season I am trying to keep up with all your posts.

>New Zealand has an organized AFB disease control program, funded by 
> the national beekeeping association,

NZ AFB disease control program is Managed by the National Beekeeping Association
But funded by the NZ Beekeepers (under government legislation.)  Not all beekeepers
are members of the National Beekeepers Association, however this does not exempt them
from paying their annual AFB Pest Management Plan Levies.

>that includes annual registration 
> of apiaries, the reporting of all AFB cases by beekeepers, disease 
> control education, AFB research, and the random and targeted 
> inspection of beehives by both government inspectors and volunteer 
> beekeeper inspectors.  — Honeybee Science (2000) Vol. 21 No. 2 pp. 
> 61-67

How this topic ended up under Neurological effects I can't remember.

Cheers
Fiona O'Brien
King Country 
New Zealand


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