Lloyd Spear wrote:

> The only practical way I can think of that would fix this would be some
> state not accepting the NYS certificates because of finding scale in
> certified hives.  Maine would be a prime candidate for that state, but they
> must have found it and are still accepting NYS certificates.

Or they did not find any AFB scale, hence there either is no problem or
the hives are healthy and no AFB symptoms are present even with scale.
My guess is the former.

Also, I do not know how many colonies come from NY. If any at all they
are in the low numbers compared to the South.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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