Greetings!

Winter is a great time for reading over stuff we might have missed
over the years! I stumbled on this little bit of info. I have always
opposed the "shaking method" of treating AFB as penny-wise and
pound-foolish ...

Dr. Steve Pernal, who
works in one of the last
Canadian government funded
bee research facilities in
Beaverlodge, Alberta, Canada,
arrived at his job when
American foulbrood (AFB) was
really causing problems for
some commercial beekeepers.

Steve found that
the best sample to take for
AFB spores in a colony is the
nurse bees. They turn out to
be very good indicators of
the level of contamination in
the boxes. In some cases,
100% of the bees in a sample
were contaminated.

Eric Mussen
Mar./Apr. 2004


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