Rip, Bob, Allen and others:

I guess it all depends upon whether or not you are afraid
of the problem of AFB hurting your hives and your bees.

You cannot build resistance to AFB with inbuilt fear in
your minds, for honeybees that live in a natural
co-existance harmonious relationship in Nature are always
exposed. So when you reach a point where infection or
infestation is co-habitat and mutual which it has to be, to
be successful for saying I have resistance, and this
meaning in less then 1-2% infection in relation to your
bees, then you have avenues opened for doing other things
for which beekeeping throughout the centuries has been
noted for, for medical, building, transportation,
navigation, and even religious thinking for how things
should be and work.

There is nothing wrong with processing wax with AFB and
there never has been with attention to detail, for only
when working your bees and processing all products in a
whole-bee concept, as everything is related will you get
ahead, for from the wax reprocessed comes the now new
foundation, that then sets the stage for environment
changes for your bees, and how they relate to health,
mating, diet foraging, etc.

It's like children nowadays being given dirty dirt and sand
to play in to get reexposed to naturally occuring agents
that could hurt their health later on and resistance. No
exposure and no resistance builds.

So it is with bees. You cannot take away the environment,
so why take away the wax except out of fear due to
imbalances from field management systems they are currently
upon, or you yourself are using.

Respectuflly submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrganicBeekeepers/




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