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Subject:	Re: do adult bees digest AFB spores?
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Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:25:38 -0400
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In a message dated 10/04/2013 15:55:05 GMT Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

Potency  of spores will deteriorate over time and under  various
conditions. 


AFB spores are in the same family as Anthrax which has a 'half life' of  
about 50 years!  Here in Dorset (UK) George Vickery, a bee farmer,  
deliberately as an experiment, illegally melted comb from an AFB infected colony  
instead of burning it, and made foundation which he used.  He closely  monitored 
the hives in which the foundation was placed and found no  re-occurrence of 
AFB.  From this he concluded that a coating of wax comes  between the AFB 
spore and the larval chemical that stimulates it to revive and  multiply.
 
Chris

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