On 12-Oct-17, at 8:59 PM, don coats wrote:

>
> So, reliance on a higher standard of management practices and  
> hygienic care
> might result if antibiotics were banned in US as they are in Europe.

Hi Don & All

I am late with my feeding and treatments this autumn due to the heavy  
goldenrod flow in late September and daily rain now.  I completed my  
mitewipe treatment in August but haven't started oxytet.  I remember  
the professional apiarist warning us not to use prophylactic oxytet   
treatments if only capped brood is found in a colony, as AFB is a  
larval disease.  I  checked for brood as I stripped each hive and  
found lots  of capped brood but almost no open larvae.  If we in North  
America could abandon prophylactic oxytet treatments en masse and burn  
the AFB breakouts, we will eventually get the low level of breakouts  
as experienced elsewhere.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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