Reply to: RE>Help with symptoms This sure sounds like foulbrood. First, treating with Teramycin is not a one shot deal, it must be done every 10 to 14 days through the winter, or provision made for a steady exposure to the antibiotic. I feed the drug every 14 days in a heavy sugar syrup mixture, and only put the drug in after the mixture has cooled down to outside temperature. Moisture and heat and sunlight are enemies of Teramycin, and sun will destroy it immediatly, but it will last in water at cold temperatures for about 10 days. You should have your hive inspected and if the recommendation is to destroy it, you should do so. Otherwise begin Teramycin treatment immediately. Mix one quarter spoonful in a quart of sugar syrup. Put holes in the lid of the jar, and turn it upside down over the hive, protected from the sun. I put it over the openings in the top cover, with an empty super around it. Read some books on beekeeping in the meantime! -------------------------------------- Date: 2/8/95 5:02 To: Bill Fernihough From: Discussion oB Biology I have a colony that went into winter weak - probably too weak - and is still experiencing problems. I am wondering if anyone on the list has any ideas. I will give some background first: This colony struggled all the last two years and never really built up. It was requeened last spring. I treated them with Apistan last spring and fall and with teramycin last fall. On a recent mild day I inspected them and found them even weaker - only about three frames of bees. I noticed some capped brood that had holes in the cappings. I opened a few and there was a light brown to grey liquid inside. It had a thick consistency, but not gooey. It had a bad smell, but I had to put it directly to my nose to smell it. No particularly bad odor was coming from the hive, though. The queen was present and was laying in a small pattern. Any ideas of what I might be experiencing? George Clarkson Columbia, SC USA 70641,[log in to unmask]