In a message dated 02/09/2010 13:17:50 GMT Daylight Time,
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By no means do I think rendering wax kills spores.
A highly respected and experienced local beekeeper (Dorset UK) who kept
bees on a commercial scale, experimentally (and probably illegally as it
should have been burnt!) melted down the wax from a colony with AFB, made
foundation from it and gave it to a colony to work. They showed no subsequent
sign of AFB.
Although AFB spores are very difficult to kill, the beekeeper's view was
that they had become wax-coated by the process and thus cut off from anything
that would activate them.
Chris
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