>
> >What I'm curious to know is why EFB is considered serious enough in the
> U.K. and Switzerland to warrant classification as a "notifiable" disease?


In my experience, laying worker colonies often show signs of EFB.  I was
working my bees a few years ago, with a visiting apiary inspector from
Australia watching.  I came across a laying worker colony with EFB, and
simply set it on top of a healthy queenright hive to "clean it up."  He
just about had a heart attack.  I explained that in my experience, it
works.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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