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> A healthy colony does not smell when close.
I think you mean, does not smell bad. A healthy colony definitely has an odor component. I remember trying to explain to my dad how a honey colony has a noticeable odor. He said, you mean the honey? the pollen?
Of course, we can smell these things but also the bees have an animal odor, just as a dog, or sheep, etc. Also, I would say that open brood has a detectable odor.
But the odor of certain diseases can be quite pronounced. Most experienced beekeepers have detected foulbrood before opening a hive. One time I walked into bee yard which was almost neck deep in weeds. I picked up a very strange, rank, almost cheese-like stench.. When I found the hive among the 20 or so there, it was about 4-5 boxes high and had the most chalkbrood I ever saw in one hive.
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