> Had our bee meeting last nite. One of our members, in Kentucky, also keeps > hives in Ohio. Said the Inspector in Ohio called him and asked to get the > word out. Ohio has had MAJOR losses this summer from American Foulbrood. > I don't know what major means, but he asked me to post this for him. The > inspector advises that everyone carefully check their hives. And (sorry > to those that this offends) to use the terramycin as recommended. > > Sorry this information is second or even third hand. > And flat wrong. Monday 11-16 we had one of the state's 4 regional inspectors at our bee meeting, John Gorman. Statewide AFB was at >2.55% of more than 23000 inspected hives (if I remember correctly), up only slightly from the previous year (>2.35% ?) and in line with the previous 10 years data. Variation over 10 years was about .5%, IIRC. Varroa, OTOH, was at 39.5%.