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> 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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