> When you say "extended,"
> do you mean sticking straight up as with normal AFB pupal tongues?

These are pretty well adult bees and I can't recall, but don't starving 
bees die with extended tongues.  (I never let my bees starve).

> The symptoms you may be describing (fully-formed adults unable to emerge,
> often with deformations) are also those of an insect growth regulator (IGR)
> insecticide.  Might your bees have been exposed?

Nope.  I doubt it.  Not this year. What crop is it used on?

> You may wish to see whether your dead bees finally
> melt down, and then test.

I'm not that interested.  In fact, I'm finding beekeeping itself to be a 
drag lately.

> We are also seeing a strain of EFB??? that ropes a bit, and smells, but a
> very different smell than AFB.

It is FOULbrood after all, but the roping is novel.  Sure it is only EFB 
and not that new research grant justifying brood acronym disease?

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