<I sed this. . .> >>> Has anyone got a cure for chalkbrood? <J.P.C sed this. . . > >> Chalkbrood is something that is very easy to breed out of a stock. >> It can be brought to a very low level where it does not bother. >> Resistance to chalkbrood varies very quite a bit between different >> stocks. I think that this type of resistance is different from hygienic >> behaviour. With resistant stock you don't see mummies in the brood >> frames, you don't find them on the bottom boards or in the pollen >> traps and the brood is solid and homogeneous showing that larvae have >> not been removed. Well, a few years ago I bought some pollen from the fellow who brought us queens 'under the hood'. (That is an inside joke). Since then I have never had problem finding chalkbrood. As a bee inspector I drove all over Alberta when the disease first appeared. Now I can sit at home and find enough to satisfy any survey. In the spring, when we choose breeders, I tip the whole (#%@) hive back and look on the floor of any prospective breeder and count the mummies. Any number beyond '1' fails. We still have CB, but it *is* decreasing. J.P. Are you coming out to the meeting in Edmonton in Jan? Are we going skiing/snowboarding? I have been trying to get the agenda to post it to this group - it should be a *fab* meeting, but haven't managed to do it yet. Soon. . . W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper VE6CFK Rural Route One, Swalwell, Alberta Canada T0M 1Y0 Phone/Fax: 403 546 2588 Email: [log in to unmask]