Peter said:

> Do you not agree that a bee colony from which you would have removed the
potentially
> contaminated frame would also after removal of said frame still contain 9
other
> potentially spore contaminated frames!

> what benefit would be derived by the removal of only one frame from a AFB
> contaminated colony?

My basic assumption is that any detected AFB results some vigorous shaking
followed by a small bonfire.  What I was talking about was the odds of
removing spores that were undetected. By definition this means a very very
limited infection, perhaps with spores encapsulated by wax and/or propolis
on no more than one frame.

If you feel that there are holes in that rationalization through which
one could drive several inconveniently large 55-foot tractor trailer trucks
of beehives, so be it.

I'm at least doing something, which has to be better than doing nothing.


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