Ian Watson writes:

>... plastic foundation ... if you ... suspect American Foulbrood, then
> all you have to do is scrape off the comb, scorch the box and it
> *should* be safe to re-use the equipment.because the
> scale that the Foulbrood leaves behind is attached to the bottom
> of the cell.....not the midrib as I had mistakenly thought.

I would not be so cavalier.  The reason you scorch the box is because there may
be spores on surfaces other than the combs.  I would be more suspect of the
post-scraping plastic foundation before I would be of the hive boxes.

Aaron Morris - thinking don't cut corners!