Hello all One of the great things about using plastic foundation is that if you have a dead colony and 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. This is because the scale that the Foulbrood leaves behind is attached to the bottom of the cell.....not the midrib as I had mistakenly thought. Is my thinking correct? Comments welcome. Ian Watson > We have discussed this for a long time on this list and there are many excellent > articles in our logs expressing several different points of view. Some people > say burn or melt, others say treat with oxytetracycline, and others say breed > bees that can stand AFB.